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Principle Instructor

Michela Massimi
Michela is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Science at Edinburgh. She was Junior Research Fellow in
Cambridge (2002-2005) and Visiting Professor in the HPS Dept., Pittsburgh (2009). Michela joined
Edinburgh in July 2012, having previously taught for seven years at UCL. Her primary research areas are
philosophy of science, Kant, and history and philosophy of modern physics. She is the Co-Editor-in-Chief
of The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. She is also the Principal Investigator on a
Leverhulme Trust project on Kant and the Laws of Nature.

Your Lecturers

David Carmel
David is a Lecturer in psychology. Before joining the University of Edinburgh in 2012, he was a postdoctoral research scientist at the Centre for Neural Science, NYU. He works on foundational issues in
cognitive science, and in particular on the neuroscience of consciousness and perceptual awareness.
Andy Clark
Andy is Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh. He is one of the leading
proponents of the 'extended mind' hypothesis, and has extensively written on philosophy of mind and
cognitive science. Research interests include robotics and artificial life, and the interplay between
language, thought, and action. He is currently working on predictive coding models of neural function.
Suilin Lavelle
Dr. Suilin Lavelle joined the Edinburgh department in Spring 2011, having completed a PhD at the
University of Sheffield. Her primary research interest is the field of social cognition, and more specifically,
in the various answers given to the question 'How do we understand other people's psychological
states?'.
John Peacock
John is Professor of Cosmology at the Institute for Astronomy, Royal Observatory of Edinburgh, as well as
a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He works on theoretical cosmology,
galaxy formation and gravitational lensing. He is the recipient of the Shaw Prize in Astronomy 2014.
Duncan Pritchard
Professor Duncan Pritchard joined the Edinburgh department in 2007 as the new Chair in Epistemology.
His research is mainly in epistemology, and his most recent book, 'Epistemic Disjunctivism' has just been

published by Oxford University Press.


Alasdair Richmond
Dr. Alasdair Richmond is a threefold graduate of Aberdeen University and joined Philosophy at Edinburgh
in 2003. He has published on constructive empiricism, the Anthropic Principle, Doomsday arguments,
Descartes' conception of immortality, time travel and the topology of time. He is currently working on a
book entitled 'Time Travel for Philosophers'.
Peggy Seris
Peggy is a Lecturer in the Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, School of Informatics,
Edinburgh, where she is the PI of a group working on computational neuroscience and Bayesian models
of perception and cognition. She has extensively written on the area with papers in Current Biology, PLOS
Computational Biology, Neural Computation and Journal of Vision, among others.
Kenny Smith
Kenny is a Reader in Linguistics, at Edinburgh, where he works in the Language Evolution and
Computation Research Unit. His research focuses on the evolution of human language and experimental
models of cultural evolution. He is a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of
Scotland.
Mark Sprevak
Mark is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Mind at the University of Edinburgh. His work spans philosophy of
mind to philosophy of cognitive science. His monograph The Computational Mind is under contract with
Routledge.
Barbara Webb
Barbara is Professor of Biorobotics at the Institute for Perception, Action and Behaviour, School of
Informatics, Edinburgh. She works on building and understanding computational and physical models for
perceptual systems and behaviour control.

Your Tutors

Jamie Collin
Jamie is a postdoctoral researcher at Eidyn: the research centre for Epistemology, Mind and Normativity
based at the University of Edinburgh. Amongst other things, he is interested in whether numbers exist,
and the way in which scientific, and other practices involve presuppositions about the nature of reality.
Say hello to Jamie on Twitter @JamieCollin.
Joe Dewhurst
Joe is a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on the application
of techniques from contemporary philosophy of science to conceptual issues in psychology and cognitive
science. He is also interested in questions regarding the nature of self-hood and personal identity, and in
particular how they relate to both cognitive science and practical ethics.

Guy Munden
Guy is a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on the
intersection between metaphysics and the philosophy of science, particularly looking at the prospects for
a 'deflationary' ontology and what this might mean for scientific inquiry. He is also interested in a range of
issues in contemporary metaphysics, for example the structure and nature of everyday objects, and
issues in necessity and possibility.

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