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)
"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)