I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, where I am working on a developing a moderately perspectival account of mechanistic functions in biology and cognitive science. My research interests also include the philosophy of computation, philosophy of mind and cognition more generally, and the history of cognitive science. I am involved in several ongoing collaborative projects concerning the relationship between folk psychology and decision theory, the relationship between consciousness and predictive processing, and relationship between  enactivism and computational cognitive science.

I previously 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.
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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
Twitter: @joe_dewhurst