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    Phenomenal transparency and the boundary of cognition
    Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 1-20. forthcoming.
    Phenomenal transparency was once widely believed to be necessary for cognitive extension. Recently, this claim has come under attack, with a new consensus coalescing around the idea that transparency is neither necessary for internal nor extended cognitive processes. We take these recent critiques as an opportunity to refine the concept of transparency relevant for cognitive extension. In particular, we highlight that transparency concerns an agent’s employment of a resource – and that such empl…Read more
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    Should We Discourage AI Extension? Epistemic Responsibility and AI
    Philosophy and Technology 37 (3): 1-17. 2024.
    We might worry that our seamless reliance on AI systems makes us prone to adopting the strange errors that these systems commit. One proposed solution is to design AI systems so that they are not phenomenally transparent to their users. This stops cognitive extension and the automatic uptake of errors. Although we acknowledge that some aspects of AI extension are concerning, we can address these concerns without discouraging transparent employment altogether. First, we believe that the potential…Read more
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    Where do I end? Self-models and the representation of our boundaries
    Dissertation, University of Edinburgh. 2021.
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    Sharing is caring vs. stealing is wrong: a moral argument for limiting copyright protection
    International Journal of Technology Policy and Law 3 (1): 68-85. 2017.
    Copyright is at the centre of both popular and academic debate. That emotions are running high is hardly surprising – copyright influences who contributes what to culture, how culture is used, and even the kind of persons we are and come to be. Consequentialist, Lockean, and personality interest accounts are generally advanced in the literature to morally justify copyright law. I argue that these approaches fail to ground extensive authorial rights in intellectual creations and that only a small…Read more