Philosophy of Mind:

 

• Computationalism, Functionalism, and Computational Functionalism

• Cognitive architecture and its role in computational explanation

• Related to computationalism, but more generally a metaphysical issue, the nature of physical computation

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Philosophy of Neuroscience:

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• Computational explanation (much of my work centers around the use of computation in neuroscience)

• Mechanistic explanation

• Theory development

• The relationship between computational and mechanistic explanation/modeling strategies. 

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Philosophy of Cognitive Science:

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• Methodologies, inference, and theory development

• "Levels" of explanation, explanatory integration

• Marr's tri-level framework​

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Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence:

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• Relatedness to neuroscience (e.g. shared modeling strategies)

• Epistemic opacity as it relates to scientific explanation (especially neuroscience)

• Philosophical issues in philosophy of mind and AI

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Historical Work:

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• American Cybernetics

• The histories of:

  • Neuroscience​

  • Cognitive Science

  • Computational theory development

  • Computation in the philosophy of mind