ABOUT ME:

I am Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex, Vice-Chair of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, Deputy Director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. I did my undergraduate work at St Andrews, and my graduate work at Kings College London. I have previously held posts at the University of St. Andrews, the University of Kansas, and the University of Nebraska. I work primarily in the philosophy of mind and language.

Here is the web address for an interview of me by Richard Marshall for 3am magazine:
https://www.3-16am.co.uk/articles/a-natural-kind-externalist

PhD STUDENTS PAST AND PRESENT:

Alejandro Escudero Morales (current) Integrating Phenomenology into the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (co-supervised with Prof. Mahon O'Brien)

Andrew Phipps (current) The Ethics of Emotional Responses to AI Systems (co-supervised with Dr Daniel Williams)

Steven Lau (current) An Exploration Beyond Conceptual Analysis (co-supervised with Dr Corine Besson)

Anne Goliath (current) Challenging Notions of Consciousness through a Sound Walk and an Artist's Film (co-supervised with Prof. Joanna Callaghan) https://anniegoliath.com/

Joseph Backhouse-Barber (2024) The Social and the Subject: between cognitive science and sociology

Joseph Gough (2022) Homeric Eliminativism (co-supervised with Prof. Andy Clark) https://joefgough.com/

Valerie Whittington (2021) Acting Upon a Concern: British Quakers, democracy, utopia and the republican tradition (co-supervised with Prof. Darrow Schecter)

Jonathan Lee (2019) Mind, Meaning and Mechanism: the role of representation in explanations of cognition. https://philpeople.org/profiles/jonny-lee-1

Alan Roberts (2017) Is This a Joke? The Philosophy of Humour. https://philpeople.org/profiles/alan-roberts

Adrian Downey (2016) Radical Sensorimotor Enactivism. https://philpeople.org/profiles/adrian-downey

Elaine O'Connell (2015) The Language of Emotion.

Jacob Berkson (2014) Truth as an Evaluative, Semantic Property: a defence of the linguistic priority thesis.

Tom McLelland (2012) Self-Representationalism and the Russellian Ignorance Hypothesis: a hybrid response to the problem of consciousness. https://tommcclelland.org/