I welcome applications from MSc students to supervise their research dissertation. Below is a list of MSc students who wrote their dissertation with me along with dissertation titles.

Past students

2023 Harriet Tyler Assessing the feasibility of a singular ethical approach to address AI ethics
2023 Shuai Cui Challenging the mirage: Can large language models truly understand meaning?
2023 Sepehr Razavi From conflict to constraints: A practical case study for model-based cognitive neuroscience
2020 Sean Roach In support of embodied cognition from a mechanobiological perspective
2020 Sean McMahon Moving through narrative space
2020 James Deery Extending the extended consciousness debate: Perception, imagination, and the common kind assumption
2019 Olivia Gambelin Applying probability to the moral responsibility gap
2019 Annet Onnes Representation in artificial intelligence
2019 Joseph Keable When ‘achieving fairness’ is unfair: Redefining the goal of the algorithmic fairness problem
2019 Nuala Polo Mind the (responsibility) gap: Considering the ethical permissibility of autonomous vehicles
2019 Helen Nicolson An examination of the continuum of relationships between embodied and extended mind
2018 David Harrison Mechanistic philosophy and the use of deep neural networks in neuroscience
2018 Chris Corrall How successful is dynamical information processing as a hybrid theory of cognitive science?
2018 Francis Payyappilly Jose Extended mind hypothesis and historicism
2017 Matthew Crosby The role of sensorimotor contingencies in an embedded predictive processing neural network
2017 Sreya Pokkali Is language the only representational vehicle suitable for mindreading?
2017 Gary Smith Can a physical agent’s body perform morphological computation with respect to a predictive processing neural system?
2017 Filippo Torresan Presence and transparency in conscious perception
2015 Paulo Barbosa Assembling knowledge: The DNA model approach to knowledge
2015 Jonathan Lee Minds, models and mechanisms
2013 Joe Dewhurst Meaning in the mechanistic mind
2013 Krzysztof Dolega Bayesian representationalism
2013 Sarah Fisher Is language necessary for thinking about thoughts?
2012 Johannes Mahr Rationality outside the head
2012 David Statham Group cognition and explanatory simplicity
2012 Ashleigh Watson Extended minds as a case of environmentally scaffolded cognition
2011 Signe Cane Psychiatry in the context of extended emotion
2011 Helena Ruth Hollis Developing the illusion of passing time
2011 Justin Stanbra Is extended cognition a natural kind?
2023 Harriet Tyler Assessing the feasibility of a singular ethical approach to address AI ethics
2023 Shuai Cui Challenging the mirage: Can large language models truly understand meaning?
2023 Sepehr Razavi From conflict to constraints: A practical case study for model-based cognitive neuroscience
2020 Sean Roach In support of embodied cognition from a mechanobiological perspective
2020 Sean McMahon Moving through narrative space
2020 James Deery Extending the extended consciousness debate: Perception, imagination, and the common kind assumption
2019 Olivia Gambelin Applying probability to the moral responsibility gap
2019 Annet Onnes Representation in artificial intelligence
2019 Joseph Keable When ‘achieving fairness’ is unfair: Redefining the goal of the algorithmic fairness problem
2019 Nuala Polo Mind the (responsibility) gap: Considering the ethical permissibility of autonomous vehicles
2019 Helen Nicolson An examination of the continuum of relationships between embodied and extended mind
2018 David Harrison Mechanistic philosophy and the use of deep neural networks in neuroscience
2018 Chris Corrall How successful is dynamical information processing as a hybrid theory of cognitive science?
2018 Francis Payyappilly Jose Extended mind hypothesis and historicism
2017 Matthew Crosby The role of sensorimotor contingencies in an embedded predictive processing neural network
2017 Sreya Pokkali Is language the only representational vehicle suitable for mindreading?
2017 Gary Smith Can a physical agent’s body perform morphological computation with respect to a predictive processing neural system?
2017 Filippo Torresan Presence and transparency in conscious perception
2015 Paulo Barbosa Assembling knowledge: The DNA model approach to knowledge
2015 Jonathan Lee Minds, models and mechanisms
2013 Joe Dewhurst Meaning in the mechanistic mind
2013 Krzysztof Dolega Bayesian representationalism
2013 Sarah Fisher Is language necessary for thinking about thoughts?
2012 Johannes Mahr Rationality outside the head
2012 David Statham Group cognition and explanatory simplicity
2012 Ashleigh Watson Extended minds as a case of environmentally scaffolded cognition
2011 Signe Cane Psychiatry in the context of extended emotion
2011 Helena Ruth Hollis Developing the illusion of passing time
2011 Justin Stanbra Is extended cognition a natural kind?