Gabriel Segal

Professor Gabriel Segal is an academic philosopher, cognitive scientist and an author.

Gabriel Mark Aurel Segal was born in the UK in 1959, and is the son of psychoanalyst Hanna Segal and brother of mathematician Dan Segal.

Segal was educated at University College London, where he received a BA in Philosophy with First Class Honours in 1981. Later he studied for his B. Phil. at the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Peter Strawson, graduating in 1983 with an overall distinction, and winning the John Locke Prize in Mental Philosophy.

Finally, Segal received his PhD in Philosophy from MIT in 1987, supervised by Ned Block and Noam Chomsky.

Segal's first teaching appointment was at the University of Madison, Wisconsin, after which he accepted a lectureship at King's in 1989.

Segal taught at King's College London for several years, before being awarded a Professorship, aged 41. He served as Head of Department for four years and was named Professor Emeritus at King's Department of Philosophy in 2014.

In the past, Segal has been a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, and worked part-time as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading between September 2012 and December 2013.

Professor Segal has published extensively on philosophy of mind and psychology, and philosophy of language and linguistics. His work has appeared in academic journals, reviews, books and as individual papers.

He co-authored Knowledge of Meaning: An Introduction to Semantic Theory with Richard Larson in 1995 (ISBN ). Segal also authored A Slim Book about Narrow Content, which was published in 2000 (ISBN ) and Twelve Steps To Psychological Good Health and Serenity - A Guide, published in 2013 (ISBN ).

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