Research

Here is a list of my publications, as well as online versions of some of them. If you would like to see a paper that I haven’t uploaded, please email me.

I have listed the papers for which I am the sole author without any author names. For the co-authored papers, I’ve listed my co-authors after the journal name. Please consult the journal website for full information.

My Google Scholar profile is here.

Monographs

Natural kinds and the science of perception. Forthcoming with Oxford University Press.

Cultural robotics. (provisional title). Under contract with Routledge. With Masoumeh Mansouri.

Journal articles

1. (2025). Surveys of the scientific community on the existence of extraterrestrial life. Nature Astronomy.

Co-authored with Peter Vickers (first author), Emma Gardiner, Catherine Gillen, Byron Hyde, Cyrille Jeancolas, Samantha Mitchell Finnigan, Julie Nekola Nováková, Henning Strandin, Ufuk Tasdan and Sean McMahon. 

2. (2024). A culture of their own? Culture in robot-robot interaction. AI and Society. Co-authored with Masoumeh Mansouri.

3. (2024).Development of a novel methodology for ascertaining scientific opinion and extent of agreement PLOS ONE. 

Co-authored with Peter Vickers (first author), Ludovica Adamo, Mark Alfano, Cory Clark, Eleonora Cresto, He Cui, Haixin Dang, Finnur Dellsén, Nathalie Dupin, Laura Gradowski, Simon Graf,  Aline Guevara, Mark Hallap, Jesse Hamilton, Mariann Hardey, Paula Helm, Asheley Landrum, Neil Levy, Edouard Machery, Sarah Mills, Seán Muller, Joanne Sheppard, Shinod N. K., Matthew Slater, Jacob Stegenga, Henning Strandin, Mike T. Stuart, David Sweet, Ufuk Tasdan, Owen Towler, Dana Tulodziecki, Heidi Tworek, Rebecca Wallbank, Harald Wiltsche and Samantha Mitchell Finnigan.

4. (2024). Consciousness interpreted: An interpretation of Dennett’s view of consciousness. Philosophical Psychology.

5. (2024) Powerful qualities and the metaphysics of properties. Philosophy Compass.

6. (2024) Does cultural robotics need culture? Conceptual fragmentation and the problems of merging culture with robot design. International Journal of Social Robotics. Co-authored with Masoumeh Mansouri.

7. (2023) Compound powerful qualities: properties as compounds of distinct powers and qualitiesSynthese.

8. (2023) Attention as a patchwork concept. European Journal for Philosophy of Science.

9. (2022) Consciousness as a natural kind and the methodological puzzle of consciousness. Mind and Language.

10. (2021) A new solution to the regress of pure powers. Analysis. For a reply to this paper, see here.

11. (2020) Redundancy masking and the identity crowding debate. Thought. Co-authored with Bilge Sayim.

12. (2020) The relation between subjects and their conscious experiences Philosophical Studies.

13. (2020) Fuzziness in the mind: can perception be unconscious? Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

14. (2019) Letters lost: capturing appearance in crowded peripheral vision reveals a new kind of masking. Psychological Science. Co-authored with Bilge Sayim.

15. (2019) Powerful problems for powerful qualities. Erkenntnis. For discussion of this paper, see here.

16. (2019) Whales, fish and Alaskan bears: interest-relative taxonomy and kind pluralism in biology. Synthese. 

17. (2019) Modal Combinatorialism is Consistent with S5. Thought.

18. (2018) Powerful qualities and pure powers. Philosophical Studies. For responses to this paper, see here, here, and here.

19. (2018) Is panpsychism simple? Analysis.

20. (2018) Emotions, concepts and the indeterminacy of natural kinds. Synthese. 

21. (2018) Crowding, Attention and Consciousness: In Support of the Inference HypothesisMind and Language. Co-authored with Bilge Sayim.

22. (2018) Attention, psychology and pluralism. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

23. (2017) Powerful qualities, phenomenal concepts and the new challenge to physicalism. The Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 

24.(2017) Powerful qualities, the conceivability argument and the nature of the physicalPhilosophical Studies.

25. (2017) Conceptual fragmentation and the rise of eliminativismEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Science. Co-authored with Peter Vickers.

26. (2015)  Against unifying accounts of attentionErkenntnis. 

27. (2013) Is the grain of vision finer than the grain of attention? Response to Block Thought. For Ned Block’s response to this paper, see here.

28. (2013) Is attention necessary and sufficient for phenomenal consciousness? Journal of Consciousness Studies. 

Papers in edited collections (peer-reviewed)

1. (forthcoming). What is ‘culture’ in cultural robotics? A framework for understanding culture in human-robot interaction. In: R. Hakli, S. Nyholm, M. Nørskov, S. Nørskov (eds). Social Robots and Cultural Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan. Co-authored with Masoumeh Mansouri.

2. (2019) A powerful new anomalous monism. M. Guta (ed.) Ontology and Consciousness. (Routledge).

Letters and commentaries

1. (forthcoming). Natural kinds and the conscious/unconscious divide. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Co-authored with Andrew Bremner. This is a commentary on Stockart et al.’s paper on studying unconscious processing.

2. (2025) Can an AI system be conscious? AI and Society.

3. (2024) Cluster kinds and the developmental origins of consciousness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Co-authored with Andrew Bremner. This is a commentary on Tim Bayne and colleagues’ paper here. For their response to our letter, see here.

Book reviews

1. (2023) Movements of the Mind by Wayne Wu. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

2. (2019) Consciousness and Meaning by Brian Loar. Edited by K. Balog and S. Beardman. Philosophy.

3. (2017) The Mind’s Construction: Review of “From the Knowledge Argument to Mental Substance: Resurrecting the Mind.” Howard Robinson. Times Literary Supplement.

4. (2014) Review of “Sensory Integration and the Unity of Consciousness” C. Hill and D. Bennett (eds.) MIT Press. Analysis. 

5. (2013) Review of  “After Physicalism” Benedikt Paul Göcke (ed.). Mind.