This page provides links to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) copies of some of my work. Given the early stage of my D.Phil. there is not much here at the moment. B.Phil. Thesis: Neurocomputation and Symbolic Thought: The Philosophical Implications of Biological Plausibility in Connectionist Network Modelling. This is my major work to date, and it forms the basis upon which my D.Phil. is founded. 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. It is the material in this last chapter that I am expanding and exploring now. 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 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. Systematicity and Cognitive Architecture. This forms a part of my D.Phil. thesis, and I am working on it at the moment. It will be available here shortly. Modularity and Central Processing. This is also part of my D.Phil. thesis, and concerns Fodor's claim - made in The Modularity of Mind - that central processing cannot be produced by modular architectures. It is nearly finished, and will also be available soon.
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