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The perception of silenceProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120 (29). 2023.Auditory perception is traditionally conceived as the perception of sounds — a friend’s voice, a clap of thunder, a minor chord. However, daily life also seems to present us with experiences characterized by the absence of sound — a moment of silence, a gap between thunderclaps, the hush after a musical performance. In these cases, do we positively hear silence? Or do we just fail to hear, and merely judge or infer that it is silent? This longstanding question remains controversial in both the p…Read more
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Visual adaptation and the purpose of perceptionAnalysis 83 (3): 555-575. 2023.
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Austerity and IllusionPhilosophers' Imprint 20 (15): 1-19. 2020.Many contemporary theorists charge that naïve realists are incapable of accounting for illusions. Various sophisticated proposals have been ventured to meet this charge. Here, we take a different approach and dispute whether the naïve realist owes any distinctive account of illusion. To this end, we begin with a simple, naïve account of veridical perception. We then examine the case that this account cannot be extended to illusions. By reconstructing an explicit version of this argument, we show…Read more
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Scepticism about Unconscious Perception is the Default HypothesisJournal of Consciousness Studies 28 (3-4): 186-205. 2021.Berger and Mylopoulos (2019) critique recent scepticism about unconscious perception, focusing on experimental work from Peters and Lau, and theoretical work of my own. Central to their wide-ranging discussion is the claim that unconscious perception occupies a default status within both experimental and folk psychology. Here, I argue to the contrary that a conscious-perception-only model should be our default. Along the way, I offer my own analysis of Peters and Lau's study, assess the folk psy…Read more
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Naive Realism and the Science of (Some) IllusionsPhilosophical Topics 44 (2): 353-380. 2016.
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Johns Hopkins UniversityDepartment of Philosophy
Psychological and Brain SciencesDistinguished Professor
University College London
PhD, 2009
APA Eastern Division
Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Metaphysics |
PhilPapers Editorships
Temporal Experience |