Claudia Passos-Ferreira is Assistant Professor of Bioethics at NYU. She previously held postdoctoral positions at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the State University of Rio de Janeiro. She has published a book on Freud and mental causation, has published on self-knowledge, introspection, and external mental content, and has collaborated in cross-cultural research on moral development and social cognition (on topics such as empathy, fairness, ownership, and intersubjectivity). She is the PI of the project What do theories of consciousness predict about consciousness in animals, infants, and machines? funded by Templeton World Charity Foundation.