Philosophy of Psychology, Neuroscience, & Cognitive
Science
General Philosophy of Science
Early Modern Philosophy (especially
Descartes, Leibniz, Berkeley)
Wittgenstein
Current
Projects
Articulating and evaluating calls for a "science
of consciousness"
Assessing the empirical prospects for finding the NCC (Neural
Correlates of Consciousness)
Is there a folk concept of phenomenal consciousness? (with
E. Machery)
Folk psychology and visual imagination
(with J. Knobe)
Understanding the commonsense conception of colors, pains
Assessing cross-cultural variation in intuitions about
reference (with M. Deutsch, J. Livengood, & E. Machery)
Large-scale investigation of the relationship between personality
traits and philosophical intuitions (with A. Feltz, J. Livengood,
& E. Machery)
Recent
News
June 2009
Justin and Jonathan Livengood have been awarded the William
James Prize at the 2009 Society for Philosophy and Psychology
conference; this prize is awarded for the best contributed paper
by a graduate student.
April 2009 Justin will be presenting a poster on the
question of, "Does heterophenomenology concede too much?"
at the SPP in June. He will also be giving a talk there with
Jonathan Livengood on "A
New Perspective concerning Experiments on Semantic Intuitions."
March 2009 Justin
has received a Mellon/ACLS
Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2009-2010 academic
year. The fellowships are awarded through a national competition
across the humanities.
