University of Sussex
Department of Philosophy
DPhil, 2017
Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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    In this paper I argue that, by combining eliminativist and fictionalist approaches toward the sub-personal representational posits of predictive processing, we arrive at an empirically robust and yet metaphysically innocuous cognitive scientific framework. I begin the paper by providing a non-representational account of the five key posits of predictive processing. Then, I motivate a fictionalist approach toward the remaining indispensable representational posits of predictive processing, and ex…Read more
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    Split-brain syndrome and extended perceptual consciousness
    Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 17 (4): 787-811. 2018.
    In this paper I argue that split-brain syndrome is best understood within an extended mind framework and, therefore, that its very existence provides support for an externalist account of conscious perception. I begin by outlining the experimental aberration model of split-brain syndrome and explain both: why this model provides the best account of split-brain syndrome; and, why it is commonly rejected. Then, I summarise Susan Hurley’s argument that split-brain subjects could unify their conscio…Read more
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    It Just Doesn’t Feel Right: OCD and the ‘Scaling Up’ Problem
    Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 19 (4): 705-727. 2020.
    The ‘scaling up’ objection says non-representational ecological-enactive accounts will be unable to explain ‘representation hungry’ cognition. Obsessive-compulsive disorder presents a paradigmatic instance of this objection, marked as it is by ‘representation hungry’ obsessive thoughts and compulsive behavior organized around them. In this paper I provide an ecological-enactive account of OCD, thereby demonstrating non-representational frameworks can ‘scale up’ to explain ‘representation hungry’…Read more
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    Volume 33, Issue 3, April 2020, Page 469-473.
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    Reflections on Conversations and Dialogues with Recent Settlers
    Studies in Social Justice 14 (2): 486-495. 2021.
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