Ph.D. Candidate, Philosophy and Cognitive Science
University of California, San Diego
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My main research interests lie in the philosophy of mind and the cognitive sciences. I am most interested in social understanding, particularly claims about it from analytic philosophy (the theory theory and simulation theory approaches to "mindreading" or "theory of mind"), phenomenology (the recent work of e.g., Shaun Gallagher, Matthew Ratcliffe, Dan Zahavi), developmental psychology, and neuroscience. My dissertation makes use of this work to develop an enriched account of human social understanding.
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| News |
Recent and forthcoming publications:
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| "Folk Psychological and Phenomenological Accounts of Social Perception." Philosophical Explorations, 11(3), 223-235. |
"The Phenomenological Critics of Folk Psychology: The Case of False Belief." Conditionally accepted to Journal of Consciousness Studies.
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Recent conference presentations:
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| "Control-Theoretic Models of Action Understanding: Simulation, Theory, or Both?" Poster presentation at the 34th annual meeting of The Society for Philosophy and Psychology, June 26-29, 2008. |
"The Concept of Simulation in Control-Theoretic Accounts of Motor Control and Action Perception." Oral presentation at CogSci 2008, the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, July 23-26, 2008.
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Call for Book Reviewers:
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| I am currently serving as Book Review Editor of the journal Philosophical Psychology. If you are interested in writing a book review, please see our list of books available for review.
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