Dr Mari van Emmerik

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Dr Mari van Emmerik is a Junior Research Fellow in Religion and the Frontier Challenges programme at Pembroke College, Oxford, and a research associate at the Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge. Her interdisciplinary work explores the nature of mind through her previous empirical research on language and thought, and her current work in (non)religious cognition, and philosophical and theological inquiry into artificial intelligence. Mari holds an MA in Applied Linguistics as a Fulbright Scholar at Southern Illinois University, as well as an MSt and a DPhil in Science and Religion as a Clarendon Scholar at Oxford, focusing on the cognitive science of nonreligion. She has taught Theology and Science at Cambridge and co-leads the John Templeton Foundation–funded project "Awe-some Spirituality," examining how awe bridges secular and religious spirituality. Her current project at Pembroke College brings Christian incarnational theology into conversation with cognitive science to address digital justice and epistemic diversity in AI.

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Philosophy of Mind

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Psychology

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