I am an early-career researcher in Philosophy. My main philosophical interests are within aesthetics, social epistemology and the philosophies of agency, mind and perception. I am becoming increasingly interested in the ontology and epistemology of reasons. 

My PhD, on the epistemic value of pictures, was awarded in August 2011 from Birkbeck College. It was funded by the inaugural British Society of Aesthetics PhD Studentship Award and a Royal Institute of Philosophy Jacobsen Fellowship. My primary supervisor was Dr. Keith Hossack. In 2010 I was a visiting student in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, where I was supervised by Prof. John Hyman.

In 2011 - 2012 I will teach on a variety of philosophy modules at Birkbeck and Heythrop colleges in London. Other roles and activities include:

• Co-organiser of the London Aesthetics Forum, a speaker series in aesthetics and the philosophy of art **now on iTunes**. 
• Editor of the 'Photography' category of PhilPapers.org.
• Editorial Assistant of the Journal of Applied Philosophy.
• Executive Committee Member of the British Society of Aesthetics.

Current Research

My current research has two distinct strands: (i) the aesthetics, epistemology and phenomenal character of pictorial representation; and (ii) 'sensorimotor' or 'enactive' theories of perception.

Publications    

• (in progress). Critical Notice of Alva Noë's Varieties of Presence. Provisionally for Canadian Journal of Philosophy.

• (forthcoming). "Seeing and Retinal Stability: On a Sensorimotor Argument for the Necessity of Eye Movement for Sight." Philosophical Psychology.

• (2011). "The Space of Seeing-In." The British Journal of Aesthetics 51: 271-279. [final] [submitted]

• (2011). "Perceptual Content and Sensorimotor Expectations." The Philosophical Quarterly 61: 383-391. [final] [submitted]

• (2010). "In Defence of Fictional Incompetence." Ratio 23: 141-150. [final] [submitted]

• (2009). "The Epistemic Status of Photographs and Paintings." The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 67: 230-235. [final] [submitted]
• Reply: Cohen and Meskin, "Photography and its Epistemic Values: Reply to Cavedon-Taylor." JAAC 67 (2009): 235-237.

• (2009). "Still Epiphenomenal Qualia." Philosophia 37: 105-107. [final] [submitted]
• Reply: Muller, "More Trouble for Epiphenomenalism." Philosophia 37 (2009): 107-112.

   

Reviews and other publications:

• (in progress). Review of The Aesthetic Mind: Philosophy and Psychology, E. Schellekens and P. Goldie (eds.). For Mind.

• (2010). "Aesthetics and Popular Art: An Interview with Aaron Meskin." Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics 7: 1-9. [final]

• (2008). Review of Two Sides of Being: A Reassessment of Psychophysical Dualism, by U. Meixner. Philosophical Psychology 21 (2): 291-294.