Professor and Chair of Philosophy
Professor and Chair of Cognitive Science
Faculty Fellow of the Rice Center for Teaching
My general interests are in the philosophy of cognitive science, the nature of knowledge, and the mind–body problem. I specialize in naturalized epistemology (Contemporary Theories of Knowledge, 2nd ed., with John Pollock), the history of skepticism, philosophy of mind, embodied cognition, animal cognition, machine learning and neural networks, and cognitive development. Recently I have written on ethics and artificial intelligence, as well as on memorial sculpture in the former Yugoslavia. I am currently drafting Making the Mind Legible, a book on the history of explanation in cognitive science.
Ph.D., University of Arizona (Philosophy & Cognitive Science), 1999.
B.A., Williams College (Philosophy), 1991.