I’m a lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and a Director of Studies at Clare College Cambridge. I’m also a member of the Inner Speech in Action project based at UPF Barcelona. My research covers a range of topics in philosophy of mind, psychology, metaphysics, aesthetics and applied ethics.

Right now I’m focussing on affordances for mental action. Long-standing work in philosophy and psychology suggests that we see our environment in terms of the actions we can perform in it e.g. we perceive a teapot as affording gripping. I suggest we also see our environment in terms of the mental …

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