Faculty Member, Philosophy Programme
About
I am Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Programme Convenor at the University of Wollongong. I read for a BA in philosophy at the University of Ulster, an MSc in Cognitive Science at the University of Birmingham and then a PhD in philosophy at King's College London. I have taught philosophy at the University of Kent, Birkbeck College Faculty of Continuing Education and as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire.
My Research interests include:
Philosophy of Mind – especially narrative approaches to the self
Philosophy of Cognitive Science – especially embodied and extended cognition
Pragmatism - especially C.S. Peirce
Wittgenstein
Aesthetics
Virtue theory as it applies to both ethical and cognitive aspects of the individual.
My main current research interest concerns extended mind style arguments, my own take on which I call cognitive integration. According to which the real pay-off from extended mind style arguments is not a new form of externalism in the philosophy of mind, but rather a view in which the ‘internal’ and ‘external’ aspects of cognition are integrated into a whole. I argue for this thesis in my book Cognitive Integration: Mind and Cognition Unbounded.
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