I am a professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure and a member of Institut Jean Nicod. My research interests are in philosophy of mind, action, epistemology, and philosophy of cognitive science. I also have a keen interest in the history of philosophy, especially Kant and Frege.
My main research projects currently are:
a project on human agency that aims to explicate individuals' guidance in terms of an empirically discovered system for cognitive control;
a project on attention, its role in inquiry, and the norms governing both;
a project on different representational kinds, with a special focus on topographic representations, as well as representations in motor systems;
a project on the foundations of cognitive control research.
Publications:
(Preprints can be found here: https://philpeople.org/profiles/denis-buehler)
"Topograhic motor representations" forthcoming in Mind
"Attention is everywhere" forthcoming in Philosophical review
"Attention and memory" forthcoming in Oxford handbook of the philosophy of memory
"What is cognitive control?" Wires (2025) (https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.70004)
"The priority map." Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2024) (https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2024.2412243)
"Explicating agency: the case of visual attention." Philosophical Quarterly 73(2) (2023) (https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqac034)
"Seeing circles: inattentive response-coupling." Ergo 9 (2022) (https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.3587)
"Agential capacities: a capacity to guide." Phil Studies (2021) (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-021-01649-6)
"Skilled guidance." Rev Phil Psych (2021) (https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-021-00526-9)
"Warrant from transsaccadic vision." Mind & Language (2020) (https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12277)
"Flexible occurrent control.” Phil Studies (2019) (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-018-1118-3)
“A dilemma for selection-for-action.” Thought (2018) (https://doi.org/10.1002/tht3.378)
“The central executive system.” Synthese 195 Issue 5 (2018): 1969-1991 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-017-1589-3)
Psychological agency - Guidance of visual attention. UCLA Dissertation (2014)
“Incomplete understanding of complex numbers. Girolamo Cardano – A case study in the acquisition of mathematical concepts.” Synthese 191 Issue 17 (2014): 4231- 4252 (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-014-0527-x)
“How is epistemic reasoning possible?” Abstracta 5(4) (2009): 7-20 (http://abstracta.oa.hhu.de/index.php/abstracta/article/viewFile/124/109)