Biography:
I became interested in problems of agency and consciousness while working on AI, robotics and logic programming at the Polytechnic of the South Bank London in the mid 1980s. So I went back to college and did a Philosophy BPhil at Oxford, and then a DPhil. I was a Research Fellow at Leeds for a year where I developed neural network (connectionist) models of representation in action. I've since taught at Oxford and Manchester Universities, before coming to UCD. I had an IRCHSS Senior Research Fellowship in 2008/9, during which time I started to develop some ideas in the philosophy of emotions. I have published three books and am working on one now on processes in experience and action as well as thinking about another one on the nature of emotion. At present I am deputy Head of School of Philosophy at UCD and also deputy Editor for the Journal of International Studies. I'm married with two daughters - Lara born in 2000 and Rebecca born in 2002. My wife, Sarah, is a writer.
