Biography:
I got 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'm married with two daughters - Lara born in 2000 and Rebecca born in 2002. Somehow I can't stop them getting into the examples I use in my lectures. I have just returned to teaching after having an IRCHSS Senior Research Fellowship for 2008/9.
