As a researcher, I work at the interface of philosophy and the cognitive and social sciences. I teach and supervise research students at Charles Darwin University in Darwin, Northern Territory. My educational background includes a PhD in cognitive science from the EHESS in Paris (France) and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Alberta in Edmonton (Canada). My published research comprises a psycho-historical framework for the science of art appreciation, a psycho-cultural model of music appreciation, a theory of the identification of human persons, a critique of individualistic theories of violence, and a model of distributed truth-tell…
As a researcher, I work at the interface of philosophy and the cognitive and social sciences. I teach and supervise research students at Charles Darwin University in Darwin, Northern Territory. My educational background includes a PhD in cognitive science from the EHESS in Paris (France) and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Alberta in Edmonton (Canada). My published research comprises a psycho-historical framework for the science of art appreciation, a psycho-cultural model of music appreciation, a theory of the identification of human persons, a critique of individualistic theories of violence, and a model of distributed truth-telling for supporting decolonisation and Indigenous philosophies in Australia. The transdisciplinary method I adopt in these works attempts to reconcile empirical discoveries made by cognitive scientists with normative and historiographical inquiries contributed by philosophers, historians, archaeologists, social scientists, and Indigenous academics. I am passionately engaged in truth-telling initiatives developed in partnership with First Nations leaders and Indigenist philosophers in Australia and Papua New Guinea.
