Rasmus Overmark

I'm a PhD Student at the University of St Andrews, currently doing a joint project in philosophy and psychology on mindreading/theory of mind, cognitive development, and the effects of language on thought, with an eye on the larger question of distinctly human cognition.

The joint nature of the project means that I spend as much time in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience as I do in the Department of Philosophy. 

I'm currently associated with the St Andrews Baby and Child Lab, where I am also responsible for organising lab meetings, as well as with the Seed Lab, and the Arché Philosophical Research Centre for Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology.

Thesis: Pragmatic relativity in mentalizing development: The case of quotative ‘be like’

I'm supervised by Derek Ball and Amanda Seed

Primary interests: 

- Cognitive development 
- Social cognition (especially mindreading/theory of mind)
- Cognitive effects of language 
- Cognitive pragmatics

Other interests: 

- Cognitive control/Executive functions 
- Comparative and cross-cultural cognition 

At the University of St Andrews

F2025 - Guest Lecturer: PY1010 (Mind and World)
S2025 - Guest Lecturer: PY4614 (Philosophy of Mind) 
S2025 - Lecturer: Honours Prize Seminar (The Social Mind) 
F2024 - Tutor: PY1010 (Mind and World)
S2024 - Tutor: PY2012 (Meaning and Knowing)
F2023 - Tutor: PY1010 (Mind and World) 

At Aarhus University: 

2022 - Philosophy of Science (undergrad medicine module) 
2020 - History of Philosophy 1 (undergrad philosophy module)
2018 - Ethics (undegrad philosophy module)

Cognitive development, Theory of Mind, Mindreading, Developmental Psychology, Language and Thought, Social Cognition, Pragmatics