Overview

My interests lie at the intersection of Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science, with particular reference to embodied, embedded, and extended cognition and perception. This paradigm treats an organism's thoughts and experiences as being essentially informed and determined by her location in, and interaction with, a physical and cultural environment. More radically, the approach motivates the view that the mind is not simply housed within the head, but may spread across brain, body, and world.

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Research

I am currently pursuing two related research themes. The first is an examination of ecological theories of perception - an approach that emphasises perceivers' embodied skills and sensorimotor knowledge - with special reference to non-visual sensory modalities. The second concerns the implications of the Extended Mind Hypothesis for epistemology, and for our mental-state concepts. Both projects continue my research interests in traditional questions in analytic philosophy of mind, considered from a naturalistic and empirically-informed perspective.

Research group links

• Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences
• Department of Sociology and Philosophy

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Publications

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2023

• Seemann A, Hughes E, Roberts T, Krueger J. (2023) Introduction: Loneliness, Topoi, volume 42, no. 5, pages 1079-1081, DOI:10.1007/s11245-023-09971-w.
• Krueger J, Osler L, Roberts T. (2023) Loneliness and Absence in Psychopathology, Topoi, volume 42, no. 5, pages 1195-1210, DOI:10.1007/s11245-023-09916-3.
• Roberts T. (2023) How to do things with deepfakes, Synthese, volume 201, DOI:10.1007/s11229-023-04044-2.

2022

• Roberts T. (2022) Feeling Fit for Function: Haptic Touch and Aesthetic Experience, The British Journal of Aesthetics, volume 62, no. 1, pages 49-61, DOI:10.1093/aesthj/ayab032. [PDF]
• Roberts T, Krueger J. (2022) Musical agency and collaboration in the digital age, Collaborative Embodied Performance: Ecologies of Skill,, Bloomsbury Publishing.

2021

• Glackin SN, Roberts T, Krueger J. (2021) Out of our heads: Addiction and psychiatric externalism, Behavioural Brain Research, volume 398, DOI:10.1016/j.bbr.2020.112936.

2018

• Colombetti G, Krueger JW, Roberts T. (2018) Editorial: Affectivity Beyond the Skin, Frontiers in Psychology, volume 9, no. 1307, DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01307.

2017

• Roberts T. (2017) Aesthetic Virtues: Traits and Faculties, Philosophical Studies, DOI:10.1007/s11098-017-0875-8.

2016

• Roberts T. (2016) A Breath of Fresh Air: Absence and the Structure of Olfactory Perception, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.

2015

• Colombetti G, Roberts T. (2015) Extending the Extended Mind: The Case for Extended Affectivity, Philosophical Studies: an international journal for philosophy in the analytic tradition, volume 172, no. 5, pages 1243-1263, DOI:10.1007/s11098-014-0347-3.
• Playford RC, Roberts T, Playford ED. (2015) Deontological and utilitarian ethics: A brief introduction in the context of disorders of consciousness, Disability and Rehabilitation, volume 37, no. 21, pages 2006-2011, DOI:10.3109/09638288.2014.989337.
• Roberts T. (2015) Emotional Regulation and Responsibility, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, volume 18, no. 3, pages 487-500, DOI:10.1007/s10677-014-9535-7.
• Roberts T. (2015) Extending Emotional Consciousness, The Journal of Consciousness Studies, no. 3-4.

2014

• Roberts T. (2014) On being annoyed, Ratio, volume 27, no. 2, pages 190-204, DOI:10.1111/rati.12032.

2012

• Roberts T. (2012) You do the maths: Rules, extension, and cognitive responsibility, Philosophical Explorations, volume 15, no. 2, pages 133-145, DOI:10.1080/13869795.2012.670724.
• Roberts T. (2012) Exploring enactive realism, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, volume 20, no. 2, pages 239-254, DOI:10.1080/09672559.2011.629671.

2011

• Roberts T, Ward D, Clark A. (2011) Knowing What We Can Do: Actions, Intentions, and the Construction of Phenomenal Experience, Synthese, volume 181, no. 3, pages 375-394.
• Roberts T. (2011) Taking Responsibility for Cognitive Extension, Philosophical Psychology, volume 25, no. 4, pages 491-501.

2010

• Roberts T. (2010) Understanding 'Sensorimotor Understanding', Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, volume 9, no. 1, pages 101-111.

2009

• Roberts T. (2009) Guidance, Selection, and Representation: Response to Anderson & Rosenberg, The Journal of Mind and Behavior, no. 30, pages 291-300.

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Teaching

Modules taught

• PHL1002A - Knowledge and Reality 1
• PHL1006 - Introduction to Philosophical Analysis
• PHL2010A - Philosophy of Mind 1

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Biography

I joined Exeter's Department of Sociology and Philosophy in September 2010. Before this, I was a teaching fellow in philosophy of mind and cognitive science at the University of Edinburgh, which is also where I received an Honours degree in Philosophy; an MSc in Cognitive Science & Natural Language; and a PhD ("Action and Experience", in late 2007). Yes; it is warmer down here.

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