RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research centers on a range of topics in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and philosophy of language. At the moment, I’m particularly interested in visual perception; the perception/cognition distinction; the mindreading abilities of humans and nonhuman animals (e.g. apes, monkeys, prosimians, dogs, and birds); and animal cognition more broadly.
In a forthcoming paper, I argue that there is no such thing as the border between perception and cognition; rather, there are various legitimate ways of marking a border, each one being geared towards a distinct explanatory goal.
Another series of projects I'm currently working on concerns visual perspective taking. Three questions I'm thinking about are (1) What exactly is it to be a 'visual perspective taker'? (2) How and why did visual perspective taking evolve? and (3) Is visual perspective taking automatic and perceptual? I address the first two questions in a forthcoming paper, which can be accessed here.
I'm currently running two studies of visual perspective taking in infants. I'm planning to run similar studies on nonhuman primates and corvids.
In a forthcoming paper, I argue that there is no such thing as the border between perception and cognition; rather, there are various legitimate ways of marking a border, each one being geared towards a distinct explanatory goal.
Another series of projects I'm currently working on concerns visual perspective taking. Three questions I'm thinking about are (1) What exactly is it to be a 'visual perspective taker'? (2) How and why did visual perspective taking evolve? and (3) Is visual perspective taking automatic and perceptual? I address the first two questions in a forthcoming paper, which can be accessed here.
I'm currently running two studies of visual perspective taking in infants. I'm planning to run similar studies on nonhuman primates and corvids.
