I am an IAS research fellow at the University of Warwick. I work in both Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Cognitive Science, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience. I am currently working on an informational teleosemantic theory of representational content. I also have an interest in Aesthetics, especially the epistemic value of literature.

I am currently working on several papers, including a non-etiological theory of functions for content determination, an information-theoretic account of representational content in neuroscience, and a defence of representational realism.

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Recent Publications

Peer-reviewed publications

Aesthetic Alchemy: Feature Construction and Conceptual Enrichment through Literature
Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 33
2021

Under Review

Decoding Cognitive Science: Can We Extract a Theory of Content from Cognitive Science?

Submitted to Philosophy of Science, 2025

maxMI: An Informational Teleosemantic Theory for Mechanistic Explanation

Submitted to Journal of Philosophy, 2025

Book reviews

Metapsychology of the Creative Process
Jason Brown
Philosophical Psychology, Volume 33, Issue 4, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2020.1743259

Select recent conference talks

2024 · Sofia · Varieties of Representation

Title: Towards a Realist Theory of Representational Content

2024 · Rome · XXV World Congress of Philosophy

Title: How to Make a Cognitive System: Brains, Minds, Drives and Information Theory

2023 · Vienna · European Congress of Analytic Philosophy
Title: Theory or Gloss: Can We Extract a Theory of Content from Cognitive Science?

2023 · Bristol · British Society of the Philosophy of Science
Title: Can We Extract a Theory of Content from Cognitive Science?

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