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 …
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 actions available to us such as acts of attention, imagination and deliberation. Recently I’ve also been exploring how social inequalities might shape our perception. Paulina Sliwa and I have developed the hypothesis that gender inequalities in the performance of domestic tasks may be underwritten by socially-mediated differences in how affordances for domestic tasks are perceived.
