Neil Van Leeuwen is an empirically-oriented philosopher of mind at Georgia State University. He did his graduate work at Oxford University, where he studied classics, and at Stanford University, where he studied philosophy. Prior to his appointment at Georgia State, he held postdoctoral fellowships at Rutgers University and Tufts University. He has also taught at University of Johannesburg, where he has an ongoing appointment as Senior Fellow. For the academic year 2015-2016, he held a Marie Curie Fellowship from the European Commission and was in residence at the University of Antwerp's Centre for Philosophical Psychology. He is currently working on a book tentatively titled Imagination, Belief, and Religious Credence, under contract with Harvard University Press.