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 infants and nonhuman animals; 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 the mindreading abilities of infants and nonhuman animals (e.g. apes, monkeys, prosimians, dogs, and birds). Two questions I'm thinking about are (1) What exactly is it to be a 'visual perspective taker'? and (2) How and why did visual perspective taking evolve? Given my pluralist approach to seeing, I hold that there are multiple ways to qualify as a 'visual perspective taker.' It is therefore important to avoid running these different forms of perspective taking together when conducting and interpreting empirical research (send me an email if you'd like to take a look at a draft on this issue).
I'm currently principal investigator on a study of visual perspective taking in infants. The study is funded by a Scholarly Activity Grant (University of the Pacific). 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 the mindreading abilities of infants and nonhuman animals (e.g. apes, monkeys, prosimians, dogs, and birds). Two questions I'm thinking about are (1) What exactly is it to be a 'visual perspective taker'? and (2) How and why did visual perspective taking evolve? Given my pluralist approach to seeing, I hold that there are multiple ways to qualify as a 'visual perspective taker.' It is therefore important to avoid running these different forms of perspective taking together when conducting and interpreting empirical research (send me an email if you'd like to take a look at a draft on this issue).
I'm currently principal investigator on a study of visual perspective taking in infants. The study is funded by a Scholarly Activity Grant (University of the Pacific). 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.
