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8Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) and the Functions of ConsciousnessCognitive Science 48 (5). 2024.Abstract“Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response” (ASMR) refers to a sensory‐emotional experience that was first explicitly identified and named within the past two decades in online discussion boards. Since then, there has been mounting psychological and neural evidence of a clustering of properties common to the phenomenon of ASMR, including convergence on the set of stimuli that trigger the experience, the properties of the experience itself, and its downstream effects. Moreover, psychological i…Read more
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54The functional contributions of consciousnessConsciousness and Cognition 104 (C): 103383. 2022.The most widely endorsed philosophical and scientific theories of consciousness assume that it contributes a single functional capacity to an organism’s information processing toolkit. However, conscious processes are a heterogeneous class of psychological phenomena supported by a variety of neurobiological mechanisms. This suggests a plurality of functional contributions of consciousness (FCCs), in the sense that conscious experience facilitates different functional capacities in different psyc…Read more
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93The First-Person Perspective Is Not a Defining Feature of ConsciousnessDialogue 60 (3): 435-446. 2021.RésuméLes philosophes et les scientifiques présument en général que la conscience est caractérisée par « un point de vue à la première personne ». Selon une interprétation de cette revendication, les expériences sont définies, au moins en partie, par des représentations qui encodent un « point de vue » centré sur le sujet. Par contre, les revendications sur les caractéristiques déterminantes de la conscience doivent être attentives à la possibilité d'une dissociation : si une structure neurobiol…Read more
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48Social-Eyes: Rich Perceptual Contents and Systemic OppressionReview of Philosophy and Psychology 11 (4): 939-954. 2020.There is ongoing philosophical debate about the kinds of properties that are represented in visual perception. Both “rich” and “thin” accounts of perceptual content are concerned with how prior assumptions about the world influence the construction of perceptual representations. However, the idea that biased assumptions resulting from oppressive social structures contribute to the contents of perception has been largely neglected historically in this debate in the philosophy of perception. I dra…Read more
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16Block party: Adam Pautz and Daniel Stoljar (eds.): Blockheads!: essays on Ned Block’s philosophy of mind and consciousness. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019, 634 pp $90 HB (review)Metascience 29 (1): 155-157. 2019.
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