I received my undergraduate education from the University of Otago (Dunedin, New Zealand) and my graduate education at the University of Arizona. I taught at Macquarie University (Sydney) from 2003 until 2006, and at the University of Oxford from 2007 until 2012. I have also held positions at the Australian National University as a postdoctoral fellow and at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and Institut Jean Nicod (Paris) as a visiting Professor.

 

I have on-going research projects on levels of consciousness with Jakob Hohwy (Monash University), on the relationship between consciousness and voluntary control with Hakwan Lau (Columbia University), and on the multisensory nature of perception with Charles Spence (University of Oxford).

 

Papers and Presentations

 

Publications

 

Please click here for a list of my publications.

 

 

Selected Talks 
 

• What is a Level of Consciousness?, Symposium on Levels of Consciousness, Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Paris, 8 July 2015

 

• Probing Consciousness in the Vegetative State: Challenges and Opportunities, Symposium on Consciousness in the Vegetative State, Towards a Science of Consciousness, Helsinki, 13 June 2015

 

Previous Talks 

 

• Implicit Cognition in the Vegetative State, The Implicit Mind: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives on Implicit Cognition, University of Stockholm, 6 May 2015

• The Scrutability of Subjectivity, Conference on Objectivity, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu City, Taiwan, 5 March 2015

• The Puzzle of Cognitive Phenomenology, Mind Network Meeting, University of Bergen, 9 January 2015

• Gist!, Australasian Society for Cognitive Science, Monash University, 10 December 2014

• Measuring Consciousness: The Natural Kind Method, Measuring Consciousness in Borderline States, New York University, 25 October 2014

• Introspective Insecurity, Department of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabruck, 18 June 2014

• Paradigms of Phenomenality, Workshop on the Work of Ned Block, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, 16 May 2014

• Reflections on Multisensory Awareness, Workshop on Multisensory Perception, University of Toronto, 10 May 2014

• Introspective Insecurity, CUNY Graduate Student Workshop, New York, 25 April 2014

• The Phenomenology of Freedom, Workshop on the Phenomenology of Agency,  University of Antwerp, 12 March 2014

• Perceptual Gist, Department of Philosophy, Monash University, 7 February 2014

• The Puzzle of Cognitive Phenomenology, Workshop on Cognitive Phenomenology, University of Fribourg, 25 November 2013

• The Puzzle of Cognitive Phenomenology, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, 22 November 2013

• Phenomenal Attitudes, Workshop on Imperatival Aspects of Perceptual Experience, CSMN, University of Oslo, 29 August 2013

• The Unity of Consciousness as a Constraint on Theories of Consciousness, Workshop on the Unity of Consciousness, University of Bergen, 25 August 2013

• The Disunity of Consciousness in Psychiatric Disorders, Summer School in Philosophy of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, 18 July 2013

• Disagreement about the Phenomenology of Free Will, Workshop on the Phenomenology of Free Will, Fribourg University, 17 June 2013

• Disagreement about the Phenomenology of Free Will, LSE Workshop on Free Will, 

• 15 June 2013

• Multisensory Perceptual Objects, LOGOS, University of Barcelona, 12 April 2013