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     RESEARCH INTERESTS 

Philosophy of Mind:
 
  • Computationalism and related issues such as the nature of information and representation when it comes to mental processes.​​
  • Cognitive architecture
  • The Language of Thought
  • Related to computationalism, but more generally a metaphysical issue, the nature of physical computation
Philosophy of Neuroscience:
  • Computational explanation (much of my work centers around the use of computation in neuroscience)
  • Mechanistic explanation
  • Theory development
Philosophy of Cognitive Science:
  • The history of Cognitive Science
  • Methodologies, inference, and theory development
  • "Levels" of explanation and more generally (and metaphysically), the nature of explanation
  • Marr's tri-level framework
Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence:
  • The history of AI
  • Epistemological issues with AI / The "knowledge problem"
  • Relatedness to neuroscience (e.g. shared modeling strategies)
  • Philosophical issues in philosophy of mind and AI
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