Ned Block (Ph.D., Harvard) came to NYU in 1996 from MIT where he was Chair of the Philosophy Program. He works in philosophy of perception and foundations of neuroscience and cognitive science. He was an undergraduate at MIT, graduating in 1964 with a double degree in Physics and Philosophy, and got his PhD at Harvard in 1971 working with Hilary Putnam, who was also his undergraduate mentor at MIT. In 1971-72 he was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT in psycholinguistics and the next year an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor at MIT. A CV is here.