My approach to research is interdisciplinary and naturalistic. I believe a better understanding of the mind and cognition requires drawing on a wide array of empirical and philosophical resources.
Below you will find a collection of published or in preparation work:
Below you will find a collection of published or in preparation work:
In Preparation or Under Review
- "Progress in Cognitive Science: A Functionalist Approach."
- "United at Last: An Integrated Account of Predictive Processing and Embodied Cognition." (with Elmaire Venter)
- "Mechanistic Computation and its Problems: An Abstract Solution."
- 2022. "A Model Solution: On the Compatibility of Predictive Processing and Embodied Cognition." Minds and Machines, 33(1), 113-134.
- 2022. "A New Mark of the Cognitive? Predictive Processing and Extended Cognition." Synthese, 200(281), 1-25.
- 2020. "How to be concrete: mechanistic computation and the abstraction problem." Philosophical Explorations, 23(3), 251-266.
- 2017. “A Mechanistic Account of Wide Computationalism.” Review of Psychology and Philosophy, 8(3), 501-517.
- 2017. “Extended Music Cognition.” Philosophical Psychology, 30(8), 1078-1103.
- 2016. “The Sound of Music: Externalist Style.” American Philosophical Quarterly, 53(2), 139-154. (with Robert Wilson)
- 2015. “Music and Cognitive Extension.” Empirical Musicology Review, 9(3-4), 193-202.
- Forthcoming. Predicting the Body or Embodied Prediction? New Directions in Embodied Predictive Processsing. In (eds.) L. Shapiro and S. Spaudling, The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition (2nd ed.).
- 2016. “Processor vs. Process Accounts of Stage Models: A Cautionary Tale.” Frontiers in Psychology, 7(719), 1-3.
- 2016. “Commentary: The Alleged Coupling-Constitution Fallacy and the Mature Sciences.” Frontiers in Psychology, 7(2033), 1-2.
- 2019. “Thinking through the implications of neural reuse for the additive factors method.” In A. K. Goel, C. M. Seifert & C. Freska (eds.), (pp. 2005-2010). Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of Cognitive Science Society. Montreal, QC: Cognitive Science Society.
- 2017. “The Narrow Conception of Computational Psychology.” In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science Society (pp.2389-2394). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
- 2017. “Resolving two tensions in 4E cognition using wide computationalism.” In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science Society (pp.2395-2400). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. (with Joe Dewhurst & George Deane)
- 2016. “Leveling the Field: Talking Levels in Cognitive Science.” In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J.C. Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science Society (pp.2399-2404). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. (with Robert West & Andrew Brook)
- (2013). 54 Encyclopedia Entries on Sterilisation Legislation. Living Archives Project: Eugenics in Western Canada. (PI: Robert Wilson).
- (2020). "Wide Computation: A Mechanistic Account." University of Edinburgh.