Recent Papers
The Standard Theory of Conscious Perception, Pacific APA Symposium with commentators Brian McLaughlin and Bill Seeley
Inductive Parsimony and the Methodological Argument, Consciousness and Cognition, 2011 (and a reply to the commentaries by John Campbell and Jennifer Corns)
Thomas Metzinger's The Ego Tunnel: A Book Review, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2010
It Takes Two: Ethical Dualism in the Vegetative State, Neuroethics, 2009
Ongoing Activities
Neuphi, a monthly workshop at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. Since I founded the group in 2007 (with Emi Iwatani), we have invited 44 speakers, including Rebecca Saxe, Ned Block, Walter Freeman, Howard Eichenbaum, Dan Schacter, Moshe Bar, Jeremy Wolfe, Sean Kelly, Justin Broackes, John Symons, Takeo Watanabe, Peter Cariani, Hakwan Lau, Georg Northoff, Susanna Siegel, Ted Gibson, Christof Koch, Steve Grossberg, Alex Byrne, Pawan Sinha, David Chalmers, Alva Noe, Michael Tye, Patrick Cavanagh, David Gamez, Ed Boyden, Peter Kugel, Selmer Bringsjord, Daniel Pollen, Jesse Prinz, Joshua Knobe, Imogen Dickie, Dan Dennett, Robert Briscoe, Paula Droege, Christopher Hill, Patricia Churchland, Uriah Kriegel, David Rosenthal, Peter Tse, Louise Antony, Nancy Kanwisher, and Ken Nakayama. This spring (2012) we will welcome Peter Godfrey-Smith, Ruth Garrett Millikan, and Susan Carey.
IGCC, the annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference on Consciousness. This is its fourth year running since I founded it in 2009. The topic of the conference this year is "Consciousness at the Margins," with keynote speakers Owen Flanagan and Mahzarin Banaji.
Current and Future Projects
Postdoctoral Fellowship with Bence Nanay, 2012-2013
The Network for Sensory Research
Research Associate, 2011-2012
Education
PhD Philosophy, Boston University
Dissertation Title:
Attention, Subject, and World [pdf]
Committee:
Daniel Dahlstrom, John R. Silber Professor of Philosophy at Boston University
Walter Hopp, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston University
Ned Block, Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology, and Neural Science at New York University
John Campbell, Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley
MA Psychology in progress, Boston University
supported as a Research Associate in Takeo Watanabe's Vision Lab
MA Philosophy, University of St Andrews