Susan Hurley

Susan Lynn Hurley (September 16, 1954 – August 16, 2007) was an American philosopher. She was appointed professor in the department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick in 1994, professor of philosophy at Bristol University from 2006 and the first woman fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She wrote on practical philosophy and philosophy of mind, bringing these disciplines closer together. Her work draws on sources from the social sciences as well as the neurosciences and can be broadly characterized as both naturalistic and interdisciplinary.

Early life Hurley was born in New York City and brought up in Santa Barbara, California. Her mother, a first-generation Armenian immigrant, was a secretary, and her father was an aviation industry executive. Hurley proposes a horizontally modular architecture that could enable social cognitive skills.