Professor goes back to school
Tamar Gendler ’87 likes to save paper. So she prints her problem sets for PSYC 518, “Multivariate Statistics,” on the back of discarded pages from the rough draft of a book she is writing. Her grades have lately been sliding a little, from an “Excellent” on the first two assignments to only a check mark for completion of the most recent two.
But Gendler is not a typical Yale student. In fact, she’s not really a Yale student at all — she’s a professor.
Gendler, the chair of the cognitive science program and a specialist in the philosophy of psychology, was awarded a 2009 Mellon...
