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I am a full-time PhD student at the University of Warwick studying the philosophy of mind and perception. I have a BA in philosophy from the University of York and an MLitt in philosophy from the University of St Andrews and Stirling Graduate Programme (SASP).
Department: Philosophy
Supervisors: Bill Brewer and Quassim Cassam
Thesis Title: The Object-Involving View of Perceptual Experience (provisional)
Funding: AHRC / University of Warwick Ph.D. Fellowship
Year Started: 2008
Research Interests
My research concerns the relation between perceptual experience and knowledge, along with the role of conceptual capacities within perceptual experience. I am particularly interested in the role that objects, non-conceptual content and action play within a naturalised account of perception and the relation between mind and world.
Other interests include the nature of mental content and representation, embodied mind and cognition, the metaphysics and consciousness of temporal passage, and the works of Thomas Reid and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Recent Talks and Papers
- ‘Is Reid a Direct Realist About Visual Perception?’ (work in progress).
- Response to Tim Crane: ‘The Given’, MindGrad, University of Warwick, December 2009.
- ‘The Argument from Veridical Illusion’, Work-in-Progress Seminar, University of Warwick, May 2008.
- ‘Time-Consciousness and the Present: A Dynamical Systems Perspective’, Work-in-Progress Seminar, University of Warwick, November 2008. [slides]
- ‘PhilosophyWiki.org: A New Tool for Philosophy Research’, Research Information Network, May 2008.
- ‘Time, Tense and Adverbial Change’, Graduate Reading Party, University of St Andrews, October 2007.
Other Philosophy
- ‘Reflecting Upon Death’, Dialectic, 4, Spring 2009.
- ‘Does Attention Exist?’, British Journal of Undergraduate Philosophy, 2 (2), July 2007, pp. 153–68.
- ‘What Is Philosophy?’, Dialectic, 1, Autumn/Winter 2007.
- ‘Is it Absurd to Deny Bivalence?’, British Undergraduate Philosophy Society Skills Conference, University of Durham, 2007.
- ‘Does Plato Have a Theory of Happiness?’, British Undergraduate Philosophy Society Spring Conference, University of Sheffield, 2006.
Awards and Achievements
- Chair of MindGrad 2009 organising committee, University of Warwick, 2009.
- AHRC doctoral award / PhD Fellowship, University of Warwick, 2008–2011.
- Highest mark in year, MLitt (Distinction), St Andrews and Stirling Graduate Programme, 2007–2008.
- AHRC postgraduate award, University of St Andrews, 2007.
- Highest mark in year, BA Philosophy (Hons. with Distinction), University of York, 2004–2007.
- Designed and developed PhilosophyWiki.org as part of an ongoing research project with Dr Tom Stoneham at the University of York. Funded by the Research Information Network, 2006–2007.
- Ede and Ravenscroft Prize for academic excellence and outstanding contribution to the Department and University life, University of York, 2005.
- First Year Prize for highest overall mark in year, University of York Philosophy Department, 2005.
Other Interests
When I’m not studying philosophy I enjoy listening to music, playing guitar, keyboards and singing, computer programming, web site design, photography, reading, film and going for walks in the countryside.
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