Research
Me, fitting somewhat uncomfortably in armchairs.
Overview
I'm interested in how the mind works, and how people interact with one another. Much of my work thus far has focused on how these themes intersect in 'social cognition'—the cognitive underpinnings of our social intelligence.
Publications
Mindshaping and Constructing Kinds
To appear in The Routledge Handbook of Mindshaping, eds. T. Zawidzki and R. Tison
Polarization is Epistemically Innocuous
Synthese (2024)
Constructing Persons: On the Personal–Subpersonal Distinction
Philosophical Psychology (2024)
Towards Biologically Plausible Artificial Vision
(Commentary on Quilty-Dunn, Porot and Mandelbaum's 'The Best Game in Town: The Re-Emergence of the Language of Thought Hypothesis Across the Cognitive Sciences')
Behavioral and Brain Sciences (Forthcoming)
Mind and Language (2023)
Other Minds Are Neither Seen Nor Inferred
Synthese (2021)
Presentations (Selected)
Iconic Perception and Categorical Properties
APA Pacific Division, April 2025
What Unifies Social Cognition?
Society for Philosophy and Psychology, June 2024
What Unifies Social Cognition?
Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, March 2024
Phenomenal Anti-Imperialism
APA Pacific Division, April 2023
Polarization is Epistemically Innocuous
APA Central Division, February 2022
Perceiving Agency
Society for Philosophy and Psychology, June 2021
Polarization is Epistemically Innocuous
Canadian Philosophical Association, June 2021
A Constructivist Account of the Personal–Subpersonal Distinction
APA Pacific Division, April 2021
Animacy as Perceived Agency
Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, December 2020
The Epistemology of Looks
APA Eastern Division, January 2020 (Handout)
Perceiving Animacy
The Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society & the Mind Association, July 2019
The Personal–Subpersonal Distinction and Social Cognition
Society for Philosophy and Psychology, July 2019
Ampliative Perceptual Judgments and Other Minds
Canadian Philosophical Association: Annual Congress, June 2019 (Handout)
Other Minds are Neither Seen Nor Inferred
APA Eastern Division, January 2019