- Professor, Philosophy
Research Interests
- Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology, Perception, Cognition, Epistemology
Education
- PhD UNC Chapel Hill
Courses Recently Taught
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Ignorance and Stupidity, Spring 2018
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Cognitive Architecture, Fall 2016
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Perception, Fall 2014 (co-taught with Ned Block)
Representative Publications
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“The Best Game in Town: The Re-Emergence of the Language of Thought Hypothesis Across the Cognitive Sciences” (with Jake Quilty-Dunn & Nic Porot) Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Target article. 2023. 1-55
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“How the Cognitive Science of Belief Can Transform the Study of Mental Health” (with Nic Porot). JAMA Psychiatry, 2023.
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“The Sound of Slurs: A Phonoaesthetic Theory” (with Steven Young). Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy (eds. Joshua Knobe and Shaun Nichols), forthcoming.
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“Everything and More: The Prospects of Whole Brain Emulation” Journal of Philosophy, 19, no. 8: 444-459, (2022). https://doi.org/10.5840/jphil2022119830.
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“The Science of Belief: A Progress Report,” (with Nic Porot) WIREs Cognitive Science, (2021). https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1539
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“The Outlier Paradox: The Role of Iterative Ensemble Coding in Discounting Outliers” Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance (with Michael Epstein, Jake Quilty-Dunn, & Tatiana Emmanouil), 46, no. 11: 1267–1279, (2020). https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000857
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“Troubles with Bayesianism: An Introduction to the Psychological Immune System”, Mind and Language (2019)
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“Against Dispositionalism: Belief in Cognitive Science”, (with Jake Quilty-Dunn) Philosophical Studies (2018)
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“Seeing and Conceptualizing: Modularity and the Shallow Contents Of Perception,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2018) 94:3
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“Attitude, Inference, Association: On the Propositional Structure of Implicit Bias”, Nous (2016).
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“Thinking Is Believing”, Inquiry 57, no. 1 (2014): 55-96.