From 2012 to 2019 I was based in London. My primary intellectual home back then was Department of Philosophy, University College London. I also spent much time at the Action and Body Lab, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, at the same school. From 2013 to 2016 I was a research assistant of Rethinking the Senses project, hosted by CenSes, Institute of Philosophy. During the same period I was also part-time at Department of Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London. Before arriving London, I spent two years at Department of Philosophy, City University of New York, Graduate Center. Over the years I have also visited University of California, Berkeley, Duke University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, and Institute Jean Nicod.
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I am an assistant professor at NCCU Department of Philosophy, Taiwan. I am also affiliated with Research Center of Mind, Brain and Learning, and directing Center for Phenomenology, at the same school. I am a philosopher-in-residence of NTU Brain and Consciousness Lab, and founded Taiwan Intercollegiate Consciousness Society. I am currently completing a MSc degree of Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health from Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience at King's College London.
Before working full-time, in 2019 I visited 1) Institut Jean Nicod, École Normale Supérieure, 2) Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge, and 3) Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, London. These visitings are partially funded by Royal Institute of Philosophy. I am also a steering committee member of iCog (2016-). I was a SSNaP fellow at Duke Institute for Brain Sciences (2017-8), a philosopher-in-residence of UCL Action and Body Lab at Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (2015-9), a recognised student at Department of Philosophy, University of Oxford (2018), and a PhD student at UCL Department of Philosophy (2015-8). I primarily work on the subjective, the objective, and the relation between them. My entry points are the senses and consciousness, as they mediate varieties of minds and the world. The general framework is Oxford Kantianism, initiated by P. F. Strawson and Gareth Evans, and was later taken up by John McDowell, Quassim Cassam, Naomi Eilan, and Anil Gomes, amongst others. What's distinctive about my approach is that I incorporate resources from phenomenology and cognitive sciences into this Kantian framework. Another way to describe my research is that I attempt to understand how transcendental, phenomenological, and empirical psychology can mesh with one another. Sample Publications (More in MY WORK): Expected Experiences: The Predictive Mind in an Uncertain World (first editor, with R. Sato and J. Hohwy, forthcoming), New York: Routledge "Is P3b a Neural Signature of Consciousness?" (with Brown Hsieh et. al., in preparation) "Bodily Awareness" (forthcoming). In The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy "Perception" (forthcoming). In: Young, B. and Dicey Jennings, C. (eds.) Mind, Cognition, and Neuroscience. New York, NY: Routledge "Post-Perceptual Confidence and Supervaluative Matching Profile" (forthcoming), Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy "Touch and other Somatosensory Senses" (first author, with Antonio Cataldo, forthcoming). In: Felipe, D. B. and Sinnott-Armstrong, W. (eds.) Neuroscience and Philosophy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press John McDowell on Worldly Subjectivity: Oxford Kantianism Meets Phenomenology and Cognitive Sciences (2021), London: Bloomsbury Academic "Book Review: The Epistemic Role of Consciousness" (2021), Philosophical Quarterly Self and World, 20 Years On (editor, special issue, 2021), Analytic Philosophy 62(1) "Molyneux's Question and Somatosensory Spaces" (2020). In: Ferretti, G. and Glenney, B. (eds.) Molyneux's Question and the History of Philosophy. New York, NY: Routledge Objectivity, Space, and Mind (special issue, first editor, with P. F. Snowdon, 2019), Phenomenology and Cognitive Sciences 18(5) Spatial Senses: Philosophy of Perception in an Age of Science (first editor, with O. Deroy and C. Spence, 2019), New York: Routledge "Quine’s Naturalism and Behaviorisms" (2018), Metaphilosophy 49(4) "A Mechanism for Spatial Perception on Human Skin" (with F. Fardo, B. Beck, and P. Haggard, 2018), Cognition 178 "The Recurrent Model of Bodily Spatial Phenomenology" (first author, with P. Haggard, 2018), Journal of Consciousness Studies 25(3-4) "Spatial Perception and the Sense of Touch" (with P. Haggard, B. Beck, and F. Fardo, 2017). In: de Vignemont, F. and Alsmith, A. (eds.) The Subject's Matter: Self-Consciousness and the Body. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press "The Sceptical Paradox and the Nature of the Self" (2016), Philosophical Investigations 39(1) "The Trajectory of Self" (with T. Lane, N. Duncan, and G. Northoff, 2016), Trends in Cognitive Sciences 20(7) "Book Review: Sensory Integration and the Unity of Consciousness" (2016), Philosophical Psychology 29(4) “Obstacles to Testing Molyneux’s Question Empirically" (2015), i-Perception 6(4) "Book Review: The First Sense" (2015), Frontiers in Psychology 6 |
I like to collaborate with people; there have been joint projects with Paul Snowdon, Patrick Haggard, John Schwenkler, Ophelia Deroy, Charles Spence, Timothy Lane, Georg Northoff, Jakob Hohwy, and Declan Smithies. I also like to host events, also with others; here are some examples: M. G. F. Martin's farewell event at UCL (2019); Self and World, 20 years on (2017); Spatial Experience (2017); Sense and Space (iCog, 2016); Objectivity, Space, and Mind (BPPA Masterclass, 2015).