I am Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. My most active interests are in philosophy of mind, especially perception, and philosophy of biology. For the last few years, I have been writing about perception as directed activity we undertake in order to find out about the world. The first part of this contrasts with the idea that perception is passive, the second with the claim that it isn't for knowledge as such, but for bodily action. In the interest of broadening philosophical conceptions of perception, I teamed up with Dustin Stokes and Stephen Biggs to edit a book for Oxford University Press on "Perception and Its Modaliti…
I am Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. My most active interests are in philosophy of mind, especially perception, and philosophy of biology. For the last few years, I have been writing about perception as directed activity we undertake in order to find out about the world. The first part of this contrasts with the idea that perception is passive, the second with the claim that it isn't for knowledge as such, but for bodily action. In the interest of broadening philosophical conceptions of perception, I teamed up with Dustin Stokes and Stephen Biggs to edit a book for Oxford University Press on "Perception and Its Modalities" (2014). Also, I edited the Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Perception (2015). (It also appears online in Oxford Handbooks Online.) I wrote a book called Seeing, Doing, and Knowing (OUP, 2005) in which I dealt with a wide range of contemporary philosophical issues in perception, treating these in an empirically sensitive way. In philosophy of biology, I have written about teleology, natural selection, and species. Before these rather contemporary concerns occupied me completely, I wrote about ancient philosophy.
