Visiting researchers

I am professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St Louis. My research focuses on philosophical questions about perception. In particular, I have written about auditory perception and the nature of its objects and about multisensory perception and consciousness. This work stems from a more general interest in how perceptual awareness relates to its objects and how it shapes our understanding of the natures of those objects.

Recently, I have been writing about speech perception, the significance of interactions among sense modalities for theorizing more generally about perception, how to differentiate the senses, how perception differs from extra-perceptual cognition, and psychological explanation and taxonomy.

Some of my essays on these topics are collected in Beyond Vision, published by OUP in 2017. A new monograph about multisensory perception and consciousness appeared in 2019. It is called, A Multisensory Philosophy of Perception.

Visiting dates: 15.06.2026 - 21.06.2026

I'm a lecturer (the UK equivalent of an assistant professor) in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield specializing in the philosophy of cognitive science and mind. I am also the director of the Cognitive Studies MA programe and an associate director of the Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Studies. 

Most of my research concerns how humans and other animals come to think about and perceive time. I also have research projects in the foundations of cogntive science more generally (esp. issues regarding the representational & computational theory of mind), philosophy of science (esp. kinds and explanation in cognitive science), consciousness, philosophy of language, and metaphysics. I have written popular pieces for a few places.

I was postdoc with Bence Nanay at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology at the University of Antwerp. Before that I received my PhD from the Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. And before that I got an MA in philosophy from the University of Houston and BA in philosophy and psychology from New York University.

Visiting dates: 17.03.2025 - 22.03.2025

I am professor of Philosophy at University of Sant'Andrews (Scotland). 

My research interests are mainly in the philosophy of mind and philosophy of perception, though I also have interests in certain areas of metaphysics. In particular, conscious experience;  temporal thought and experience; egocentric thought and experience; the nature of concepts, modes of presentations and mental files; emergent properties and "new zeno phenomena".

I completed my PhD at the University of Warwick. During my doctoral studies I also spent one year at CREA, Paris (CNRS/École Polytechnique).

A selection of publications:
Contributions:
Shared Egocentric Thoughts. In José Luis Bermúdez, Victor Verdejo, and Matheus Valente (eds.) Sharing Thoughts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

Tense and Emotion. In K. M. Jaszczolt (ed.) Understanding Human Time. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023: 11-29.

Book:
Experiencing Time, 2016, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Visiting dates: 21.10.2025 - 24.10.2025