Dr Wren Castellan
Convenor. Trained in cognitive science and philosophy of mind, with a standing interest in why people find some explanations more satisfying than others, regardless of how well those explanations hold up.
- Role
- Convenor
- Affiliation
- Slop University School of Invented Disciplines
- wren.castellan@slop.university
- Contact
- Office hours are posted on the notice board outside the seminar room, and honoured more reliably than most horoscopes.
Wren’s earlier research was on hindsight bias in eyewitness memory — how a later explanation reaches back and edits what someone thinks they noticed at the time. That work is the quiet backbone of weeks 1, 2 and 10. Wren does not have a star sign they will admit to in writing.