Professor of Philosophy
Director, Center for Programs in Arts and Sciences
Director, Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology (PNP) program
Washington University in St Louis
Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program
Campus Box 1073
One Brookings Drive
St Louis, MO 63130
USA
Bio
I graduated from King’s College, Cambridge University in 1988 and received my PhD from Cambridge University in 1992 for a thesis on transcendental arguments and skepticism. I spent the 1991-2 academic year as a Research Fellow on the Spatial Representation project at King’s, Cambridge and then was a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow until 1996, when I joined the Philosophy department at the University of Stirling. I was appointed Reader in 1999 and Professor in 2000. I served as Head of Department at Stirling from 2002-2003, before joining Washington University as Director of the interdisciplinary Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology (PNP) program. In 2007 I was appointed Director of the Center for Programs in Arts and Sciences.
Research
My research interests are at the interface between philosophy and social science disciplines such as psychology, economics, decision theory and neuroscience. I have worked on the role and origins of self-consciousness, the nature of mental content, and the possibility of thought without language. My most recent book is Rationality and Decision Theory (OUP, 2009) and my textbook Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Science of the Mind will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2010. For more details of my publications please follow the links in the sidebar.
