Christian Carrozzo

Adjunct Faculty

Philosophy of Mind, Ethics, Epistemology

Christian Carrozzo is Adjunct Faculty at the Department of Philosophy, George Mason University, where he completed a master’s fellowship and was honored with the Distinguished Alumnus Award in Philosophy by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. He completed his PhD coursework in philosophy at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He was head of education, founder/director of the Program for Neuroethics and Clinical Consciousness and Managing Editor of the Journal of Hospital Ethics at the John J. Lynch, MD Center for Ethics from 2012 to 2026. He has held additional academic appointments at The George Washington University, American University, and was a Neuroethics Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University. He writes on metaphysical and epistemological issues in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science, including reflection and metacognition, nonconceptual experience, and intentionality, as well as Kantian autonomy and the ethics of consciousness. He is lead editor and author of Decisional Capacity: Medical & Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford, 2026 forthcoming) and has served as a specialist reviewer for the U.S. Department of Defense’s Traumatic Brain Injury and Psychological Health Research Program. He contributes to the American Philosophical Association, the International Neuroethics Society, and the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind.

Courses Taught

PHIL 100: Introduction to Philosophy

PHIL 309: Bioethics

PHIL 374: Philosophy of Mind