My Work
Here you can find PDF copies of some of my work.
B.Phil. Thesis: Neurocomputation and Symbolic Thought
This is my major work to date, and deals with the philosophical implications of biological plausibility in connectionist network modelling. The first two chapters are an introduction to the essential ideas of connectionist and neural processing, and it is only in the third and last main chapter that it gets really interesting.
Undergraduate Thesis: Consciousness Distributed
This thesis was part of my first degree (in Philosophy and Psychology) and was written when I was first discovering connectionism and its philosophical implications. It is not a great work, being written when I was a comparatively novice philosopher, but I am proud of the links it draws between Wittgenstein and modern cognitive science.
Recognitional Capacities and the Determinacy of Meaning
This paper investigates the consequences of analysing meaning in terms of recognitional capacities.
Is Language a Tool?
This paper examines Andy Clark's claim that language is an epistemic tool rather than the fundamental vehicle of thought.
Is the Mental Anomalous?
McDowell and Davidson on rationality.