Lawrence Shapiro is a professor in the Department of Philosophy[1] at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the United States.
Shapiro graduated summa cum laude from Dickinson College in 1984, earning entry into Phi Beta Kappa society.
Shapiro married Athena Skaleris, a lawyer and together they moved to Madison, Wisconsin.
He is also the author of The Mind Incarnate (MIT:2004), which challenges the widespread assumption that mental states can be 'realized' in a variety of different substances.
Shapiro's argument has important consequences for a range of philosophical positions about the mind, including the functionalist analysis of mental states.