My office hours Spring ’24 are:
Tuesdays 2-3:30
Wednesdays 1-3
Thursdays 2:30-4
My office is Sawyer 503. I am also available by appointment (including Zoom meetings).
S p r i n g 2024 C o u r s e s
— Introduction to Philosophy: Mind and Reality
— COGS/PSYC/PHIL 222 Minds, Brains, and Intelligent Behavior: An Introduction to Cognitive Science
P r e v i o u s C o u r s e s
— Skepticism & Relativism Tutorial for First-Year Students
— Embodiment and Consciousness: A Cross-Cultural Exploration w/ Georges Dreyfus
— Philosophy Senior Seminar: Skepticism
— Contemporary Philosophy of Mind
— Philosophy of Animals
— History of Modern Philosophy
— Ethics of AI
— 21st Century Epistemology
— Advanced Topics in Cognitive Science
— Tutorial on Consciousness
— Current trends in Cognitive Science Senior Seminar
— Introduction to Moral & Political Philosophy
— Tutorial on Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature
— History of Modern Philosophy
— Philosophy of Language & Philosophy of Mind
— Contemporary Epistemology (and a slightly modified tutorial version)
— Concepts
— Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
— Philosophical Naturalism
— Philosophy of Psychology
— Neural Network Models of Cognition (with Neil Stillings)
— Relativism & Truth
— Foundations & Methods of Cognitive Science
— A History of Psychology
R e s o u r c e s f o r S t u d e n t s
— Introduction to metaphysics and epistemology writing tutor
T h i n g s I a m t h i n k i n g a b o u t
(Feel welcome to ask me about them if you are, too)
The free energy principle; complex systems; aesthetics and cognition; ethics and AI; generative models including LLMs; irrationality; skepticism; eliminativism/mind as mechanism; neural constraints on cognitive explanations; animal cognition; Hume; reducing animal suffering; stream of consciousness literature; sports and embodied cognition.