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I am currently working as a teaching assistant in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, where I am responsible for topics ranging from epistemology to computational theories of mind. I am also involved in the delivery of online teaching, as part of the online MSc in Epistemology, Ethics and Mind. Later this year I will be joining the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
My research focuses on the nature of computation, and especially on defending recent mechanistic accounts of physical computation. I am also interested in mechanistic explanation more generally, and have recently been working on trying to develop a moderately perspectival account of mechanistic functions. 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 from the University of Edinburgh in July 2017. |
Email: joseph.e.dewhurst@gmail.com
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