Research

Areas of Specialization

Philosophy of Perception, Philosophy of Action

Areas of Competence

Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Neuroscience, History of Philosophy (esp. Ancient Philosophy)

        Cognitive Science: Visual and Motor Neuroscience

Research Interests 

My research is mostly about Philosophy of Perception and Philosophy of Action and is empirically informed by Cognitive Science. My main research interest is Vision and its relation to the Pictorial and the Motoric.

Several pieces of my research draw on the experimental evidence obtained from the contemporary literature on the ‘Two Visual Systems Model’, which is our best scientific theory of visual processing at the moment.

I am interested, in particular, in the following topics:

Picture Perception

• The Relation between Ordinary and Pictorial Perception

• The Relation between the Pictorial and the Motoric

• Pictures and Action

• Pictorial Space

• Pictorial Attention

• Pictures and Emotions

• Trompe-l'œils

• Anamorphosis 

• Aesthetic Appreciation

• Visual Feeling of Presence

• The Use of Pictures in Experimental Settings

Vision and Action

• The Relation between Vision, Action and the Motoric

• Visual and Motor Imagery

• (Visuo)Motor Representations

• Action Properties

• Visuomotor Format

• Vision for Action

• The Space of Vision and Action

• The Philosophical Speculation about the ‘Two Visual Systems Model’

Practical Knowledge

• The Relation between Practical and Propositional Knowledge

• The Interface Problem

• Knowledge How

• The Relation between Propositional and Motoric Representations

• Motor Skills

• Pragmatic Representational Format

Molyneux’s Question

• Empirical Constraints

• Conceptual Problems

• Molyneux’s Question and Action

• Blindness

• Vision Restoration

• Perceptual Learning