Selected Academic Writings
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Enaction as the Bringing Forth of Worlds
– Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (2025)
Daydreaming as Spontaneous Immersive Imagination: A Phenomenological Analysis
– Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (2024)
What’s in a Concept? Conceptualizing the Nonconceptual in Buddhist Philosophy and Cognitive Science
– Reasons and Empty Persons (2023)
– Journal of Consciousness Studies (2022)
Laying Down a Forking Path: Tensions Between Enaction and the Free Energy Principle
– Philosophy of the Mind Sciences (2022)
Brain Organoids, Consciousness, Ethics, and Moral Status
– Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology (2022)
Buddhist Philosophy and Scientific Naturalism
– Sophia (2021)
Jonardon Ganeri’s Transcultural Philosophy of Attention
– Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2020)
Affect-Biased Attention and Predictive Processing
– Cognition (2020)
Mindful Meta-Awareness: Sustained and Non-Propositional
– Current Opinion in Psychology (2019)
Sellarsian Buddhism: Comments on Jay Garfield, Engaging Buddhism
– Sophia (2018)
– Constructivist Foundations (2017)
Response to Commentators on Waking, Dreaming, Being
– Philosophy East and West (2016)
Précis of Waking, Dreaming, Being
– Philosophy East and West (2016)
Does Consciousness Disappear in Dreamless Sleep?
– Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2016)
– Neuroimage (2016)
The Kantian Brain: Brain Dynamics from a Neurophenomenological Perspective
– Current Opinion in Neurobiology (2015)
Affect-Biased Attention as Emotion Regulation
– Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2012)
Brain in a Vat or Body in a World: Brainbound versus Enactive Views of Experience
– Philosophical Topics (2011)
– Philosophy Today (2011)
Specifying the Self for Cognitive Neuroscience
– Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2011)
Making Sense of Sense-Making: Reflections on Enactive and Extended Mind Theories
– Topoi (2009)
Representationalism and the Phenomenology of Mental Imagery
– Synthese (2008)
Mountains and Valleys: Binocular Rivalry and the Flow of Experience
– Consciousness and Cognition (2007)
Look Again: Consciousness and Mental Imagery
– Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (2007)
Primates, Monks, and the Mind: The Case of Empathy
– Journal of Consciousness Studies (2005)
Sensorimotor Subjectivity and the Enactive Approach to Experience
– Phenomenology and the cognitive Sciences (2005)
Are there Neural Correlates of Consciousness?
– Journal of Consciousness Studies (2004)
Life and Mind: From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology. A Tribute to Francisco Varela
– Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (2004)
– Journal of Consciousness Studies (2003)
Radical Embodiment: Neural Dynamics and Consciousness
– Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2001)
– Journal of Consciousness Studies (2001)
Beyond the Grand Illusion: What Change Blindness Really Teaches us About Vision
– Visual Cognition (2000)
– Behavioural and Brain Sciences (1998)
Symbol Grounding: A Bridge from Artificial Life to Artificial Intelligence
– Brain and Cognition (1997)
Colour Vision, Evolution, and Perceptual Content
– Synthese (1995)
– Philosophical Studies (1992)
Ways of Colouring: Comparative Colour Vision as a Case Study for Cognitive Science
– Behavioural and Brain Sciences (1992)
Is Internal Realism a Philosophy of Scheme and Content?
– Metaphilosophy (1991)
Planetary Thinking/Planetary Building: An Essay on Martin Heidegger and Nishitani Keiji
– Philosophy East and West (1986)
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