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I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, where I work on topics to do with computation, mechanistic explanation, and more recently formal approaches to causation and emergence in complex systems. My research interests also include the philosophy of mind and cognition more generally, and the history of cognitive science (especially cybernetics). I have previously been involved in collaborative projects concerning the relationship between folk psychology and decision theory, the relationship between consciousness and predictive processing, and the relationship between enactivism and computational cognitive science.
In my spare time I design and develop simulation boardgames, and I am interested in parallels between scientific modelling and the use of boardgames to model real-world situations. Before coming to Munich I worked as a teaching assistant in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, where I was responsible for topics ranging from epistemology to computational theories of mind. I was also involved in the delivery of online teaching, as part of the online MSc in Epistemology, Ethics and Mind. My doctoral research looked at the relationship between common-sense intuitions and scientific theories in contemporary cognitive science. I argued that concepts drawn from folk psychological taxonomies are ill-suited to the complexities of scientific practice, but defended folk psychology's role as a socio-normative discourse. I was awarded my PhD in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh in July 2017. |
Email: joseph.e.dewhurst@gmail.com
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