About
Gabriel Rabin is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at New York University Abu Dhabi, with a joint appointment as Global Network Associate Professor at NYU. His research focuses on philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mathematics. He explores questions about the metaphysical status of consciousness, representational qualities of mental states, and foundational issues in physicalism.
Education: BA in Mathematics (Columbia University, 2002), PhD in Philosophy (University of California Los Angeles, 2013). He completed a Fulbright Fellowship at the Australian National University. Awards include the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award (2012), Fulbright Scholar distinction (2008), and recognition for NYUAD’s best Philosophy of Mathematics course (2018).
Research interests include concept mastery, modal rationalism, semantic externalism, and grounding theory. Recent work addresses analog representation, fundamentality physicalism, and critiques of global skepticism using spatial functionalism. He has presented globally at institutions like MIT, the University of Oslo, and conferences in Sweden and Finland.
Teaching spans metaphysics, philosophy of language, logic, and philosophy of mathematics. He previously taught high school English and mathematics. Professional service includes refereeing for top journals and editing philpapers.org categories on physicalism and externalism.
