Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy; Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science.
Tamar Szabó Gendler is Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy and professor of psychology and cognitive science. She was the inaugural dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from July 2014 through December 2024. She holds a B.A. summa cum laude with distinction in humanities and in mathematics & philosophy from Yale University (1987) and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University (1996). After teaching at Syracuse and Cornell universities for nearly a decade, she returned to Yale in 2006 as professor of philosophy and chair of the Cognitive Science Program.
