I study time because I think it offers the broadest approach to engaging with multiple areas of thought, inside philosophy and outside of it.
Up to now, I've been particularly interested in the relationship between time and experience, especially in relation to erroneous conscious perception - for example, illusion, hallucination, but also other kinds of errors (e.g., anosognosia, and sub-types of illusion, as discussed in my 2018 book).
Recently, I've also become interested in our sense or cognition of time beyond what we can experience, e.g., our 'sense' of eons of time or time on the nanoscale. This includes how we represent such time, e…
I study time because I think it offers the broadest approach to engaging with multiple areas of thought, inside philosophy and outside of it.
Up to now, I've been particularly interested in the relationship between time and experience, especially in relation to erroneous conscious perception - for example, illusion, hallucination, but also other kinds of errors (e.g., anosognosia, and sub-types of illusion, as discussed in my 2018 book).
Recently, I've also become interested in our sense or cognition of time beyond what we can experience, e.g., our 'sense' of eons of time or time on the nanoscale. This includes how we represent such time, especially artistically (and perhaps even intuitively, if that is reasonable).
Along with philosophy of time and philosophy of mind, I bring in considerations from physics, metaphysics (e.g., property theory), epistemology, cognitive science, and phenomenology. I also do interdisciplinary work with practitioners in other disciplines, such as cognitive science, physics, and art.
Currently, I'm a research affiliate in philosophy at University College Cork (UCC). Previously, I've lectured in Trinity College, Dublin (TCD) and University College Cork. I was also a visiting fellow at the Centre for Time, University of Sydney (summer 2016) and an Irish Research Council (IRC) Postdoctoral Fellow at UCC (2010-2012). I've also had research visits to the neuroscience research centre Neurospin, Paris (2017; funded by the IRC) and the University of Glasgow (2012).
PhD at the University of Leeds (supervisor: Robin Le Poidevin).
