I welcome applications for students to come to Edinburgh for PhD supervision with me. In Edinburgh, we have a large and vibrant PhD community (2nd only to Oxford in size), with strength in philosophy of cognitive science. We have a good placement record for our PhD students. Here is information about how to apply and scholarships.

If you are not ready to start a PhD, you should consider our taught MSc in Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition (MLEC). The MLEC is a unique interdisciplinary MSc course based in Edinburgh Philosophy. Around 30 students take the course each year. The programme has a high standing internationally and high levels of student satisfaction. Applicants may hold first degrees in philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, AI, anthropology, and related disciplines.

Currently, I supervise the following PhD students:

Primary supervisor

Secondary supervisor

Christian Michel

Past students

2018	Mark Miller	The entangled predictive brain: Emotion, prediction and embodied cognition
2018	Daniel Calder	Predictive processing and mental representation
2017	José Araya	Emotion and predictive processing: Emotions as perceptions
2017	Sarah Lane Ritchie	With God in mind: Divine action and the naturalisation of consciousness
2016	Robert O’Shaughnessy	A concept is a container
2015	Sam Baird	Internalism and the explanatory role of narrow content
2014	Mario Villalobos	The biological roots of cognition and the social origins of mind
2014	David Des Roches-Dueck	Diamonds and corkscrews: A hybrid account of realization
2013	Richard Stöckle-Schobel	Concept learning challenged
2013	Francesca Rossi	Explaining cognitive behaviour: A neurocomputational perspective
2012	Spyros Orestis-Palermos	Extending cognition in epistemology: Towards an individualistic social epistemology
2012	Peter Fazekas	Tagging the world: Descrying consciousness in cognitive processes
2012	John Bray	Being responsible: Why the self matters in ascribing responsibility for action (M.Phil.)
2011	Evan Butts	Epistemology and mind extension