Academic Biography

I received my PhD in the philosophy of mind, language, and logic from Dalhousie Univeristy, but after spending six years working as a computational linguist and ontologist at Cycorp, an AI think-tank in Austin, Texas, I changed my focus to the philosophy of cognitive science.  After deciding that my interests were diverging from the research agenda at Cycorp, I decided to pursue my own ideas on cognition.  Currently at Queen's, I am writing and thinking about issues in the area of embodied cognition.  See Research for more detail on this work.

 

Education:

BA ('91) and MA ('92):Univ. of Waterloo; PhD ('98): Dalhousie Univ.

 

Recent Publications and Conference Papers:

(2007) "A Cognitive Defence of Moral Particularism: Thinking without Global Generalisations", forthcoming in Inquiry
(2007) "Case-Based Reasoning: A Cognitive Model for Moral Particularism".  I presented two different versions of this paper, one at the Canadian Philosophical Association, Learned Societies Meetings in Saskatoon and the other at the Cognition: Embodied, Embedded, Enactive, Extended conference held at the University of Central Florida from 20-24 October 2007.