I am an ex-pharmacist turned philosopher. I am presently pursuing a 1-year MA in philosophy at Central European University. In my thesis, I draw on philosophy of art & epistemology, turning the philosophical lens on the study of Internet memes. My thesis supervisor is @Asya-Passinsky.
My main interests are:
Mind: [Cognitive architecture] Is the mind massively modular or domain general in structure? [Naturalism vs. reductivism] Can an Aristotelian causal framework reconcile philosophy, psychology, & neuroscience? [Evolutionary cognitive psychology] Interactionist & post-interactionist solutions to perennial nature vs. nurture debates
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I am an ex-pharmacist turned philosopher. I am presently pursuing a 1-year MA in philosophy at Central European University. In my thesis, I draw on philosophy of art & epistemology, turning the philosophical lens on the study of Internet memes. My thesis supervisor is @Asya-Passinsky.
My main interests are:
Mind: [Cognitive architecture] Is the mind massively modular or domain general in structure? [Naturalism vs. reductivism] Can an Aristotelian causal framework reconcile philosophy, psychology, & neuroscience? [Evolutionary cognitive psychology] Interactionist & post-interactionist solutions to perennial nature vs. nurture debates
Metaphilosophy: [Experimental philosophy] What should we make of findings concerning demographic & framing effects on philosophical intuitions in thought experiments? [History of 20th-century philosophy] What are future prospects for the analytic/continental divide? [Pedagogy] Heterodox ways of teaching philosophy: by teaching philosophical heuristics; comparative philosophy (e.g., Aristotelian vs. Confucian virtue ethics); critically rethinking the curricular bias for Western thinkers, deference to the canon…
Epistemology: [Understanding, knowledge, know-how] Formulating a contextualist approach to acquisition & possession conditions of epistemic goods/states [Social epistemology] How is it that we sometimes learn something from Internet memes? (current thesis project) [Conceptual pluralism & Carnapian explicata] Should we assume that we always refer to things in the same way? That all concepts are uniform in structure? [Philosophy of science(s)] Constructive empiricism; the species problem