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? I address the first two questions in a forthcoming paper, which can be accessed here.
I'm currently principal investigator on a study of visual perspective taking in infants. I'm planning to run similar studies on great apes and corvids.
Apart from the interests described above, I'm reasonably obsessed with fossil hominins, such as this one. In my spare time, I like to collect these, these, and these.
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? I address the first two questions in a forthcoming paper, which can be accessed here.
I'm currently principal investigator on a study of visual perspective taking in infants. I'm planning to run similar studies on great apes and corvids.
Apart from the interests described above, I'm reasonably obsessed with fossil hominins, such as this one. In my spare time, I like to collect these, these, and these.
