Knowledge exchange and dissemination are important parts of academic life and I make an active effort to regularly engage with the philosophical community through organised events or professional societies.
Below is a selection of some recent talks and presentations:
Below is a selection of some recent talks and presentations:
Conference Presentations
- “New Directions in Embodied Predictive Processing” (Paper presented at 4th International Conference for Philosophy of Mind, Braga, Portugal, March 8, 2023).
- “On Your Marks: Predictive Processing and Extended Cognition” (Paper presented at The 96th Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society & the Mind Association, St. Andrews, UK, July 16, 2022).
- “Status Anxiety: Markov Blankets and the Demarcation Problem” (Paper presented at 28th European Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Leipzig-Online Event, August 30-Sept 2, 2021).
- “How (Not) to Knit Your Extended Markov Blanket” (Paper presented at 95th Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society, Online Event, July 16-18, 2021).
- “Thinking through the implications of neural reuse for the additive factors method” (Poster presented at 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Palais des Congres, Montreal, Quebec, July 24-27, 2019).
- “The Narrow Conception of Computational Psychology.” (Poster presented at 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, University of London, London, UK, July 26-29, 2017).
- “Resolving two tensions in 4E cognition.” (Paper presented The 61st Annual Congress of the Canadian Philosophical Association, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, May 30, 2017).
- “Levels in Cognitive Science.” (Paper presented at 24th Annual Conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, August 12, 2016). (with Robert West & Andrew Brook).
- “Leveling the Field: Talking Levels in Cognitive Science.” (Paper presented at 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, US, August 10, 2016).
- Music Cognition and the Extended Mind.” (Paper presented at Situating Cognition: 2nd International Conference in Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, October 18, 2015).
- “From word to practice: eugenic language in sterilization legislation (1905-1945).” (Paper presented at ISHPSSB, University of Montreal & Quebec, Montreal, CA, July 8, 2015). (With Laura Davis).
- "An Explanatory Challenge to Compatibility Accounts of Predictive Processing and Embodied Cognition" (Paper presented at Philosophy of Science Seminar, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, November 3, 2022)
- “From Theory to Research Tradition: Predictive Processing and Embodied Cognition”. (Paper presented at Situated Cognition Spring School, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, March 28, 2022)
- "The Status of Markov Blankets: An Abstracta Realist Proposal." (Paper presented at Philosophy of Cognitive Science Seminar, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Online Event, June 11, 2021)
- "Wide Computationalism: A Mechanistic Proposal”. (Paper presented at Computational Psychology Workshop, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, November 13, 2018).
- “On Your Marks: Predictive Processing and Extended Cognition” (Paper presented at The 96th Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society & the Mind Association, St. Andrews, UK, July 16, 2022).