She is professor of philosophy and runs a perception lab at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.

From an early age, she excelled at physics, mathematics, and biology, eventually completing her undergraduate education at the University of Copenhagen with a bachelor's degree in linguistics and philosophy.

She then studied neuroscience under the direction of Thue Schwartz at University of Copenhagen and the Danish National Hospital.

[3] Upon completion of her degrees in Copenhagen she studied linguistics and philosophy at the University at Buffalo, where she obtained her PhD with Barry Smith as her supervisor.

Since 2009 Brogaard has worked as a freelance writer for many popular media outlets, including Psychology Today,[9] Hello Magazine and the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

[13] Her academic and popular work has been featured in, among other places, A Report of the President's Council on Bioethics - Washington D.C. 2004,[14] Danish National Radio,[15] The Modesto Bee,[16] UMSL newsroom,[17][18][19] MostMost,[20] Attract Your Soul Mate Now,[21] Nightline,[22] NPR,[23] Popular Science,[24] Science Omega,[25] the Huffington Post,[26] and ABC News.

[26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] Her team, which consists of colleagues from the Brogaard Lab for Multisensory Research,[34] and the Visual Awareness and Cognition Group, Brain Research Unit, Low Temperature Laboratory, Aalto University School of Science, Finland,[35] has completed a series of studies on Jason Padgett,[36] who has acquired savant syndrome and acquired synesthesia.

[48] Imagine a case where we slowly destroy the primary visual cortex of a subject, one neuron at a time in an arbitrary fashion.

In this process, the brightness of the perceived content would gradually decrease until a point at which it would be unclear whether the perception counted as weakly conscious.

Or consider George Sperling's classic experiment in which a 3 x 3 array of letters was briefly flashed to the test subjects.

[63] Brogaard argues that love is an emotion; that it can be, at turns, both rational and irrational; and that it can be manifested in degrees.

She argues that personal hatred that can sometimes serve as a reactive attitude to wrongdoing, in Peter Strawson's sense.

[68] In her view, personal hatred is thus akin to paradigm reactive attitudes like blame, resentment, and indignation.

Brogaard then examines legal theorist Jeremy Waldron's argument for the view that the harm in hate speech lies in its defamatory nature.

She argues that philosopher Jürgen Habermas's theory of communicative rationality (German: kommunikative Rationalität) can be extended to provide a more comprehensive account of the harm in hate speech.