Dr. Azenet Lopez

Personal information

Dr. Azenet Lopez completed her PhD in Philosophy at the University of Miami in 2020. Since then, she has been working in the research group Cognition, Values, Behaviour at LMU Munich. She was also a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Ruhr University Bochum and at the Centre for Philosophy and Psychology, University of Antwerp.

Research interests

Her research foci are at the intersection of philosophy and cognitive science, with a focus on questions of consciousness, attention, and the connections between them.

Current projects

• Von der Information zum Bewusstsein durch Aufmerksamkeit und Integration [From information to consciousness via attention and integration] (DFG project no. 507914398).

Selected publications

1. Lopez, A & Montemayor, C. (forthcoming 2025). The Integrated Information Theory needs attention. Erkenntnis.
2. Lopez, A. (2024). Attention and representational precision. In French, R. & Brogaard, B. (eds.) The Roles of Representations in Visual Perception, pp. 71-88. Springer.
3. Lopez, A. (2024). Degrees of attention and degrees of consciousness. In Hvorecký, J., Marvan, T., & Polák, M. (eds.). Conscious and Unconscious Mentality: Examining their Nature, Similarities, and Differences (1st ed.), pp. 229-250. Routledge.
4. Lopez, A. & Simsova, E. (2023). Enhanced but indeterminate? How attention colors our world. Review of Philosophy and Psychology.
5. Lopez, A. (2022). Vicarious attention, degrees of enhancement and the contents of consciousness. Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, 3, 1.