Joel Walmsley

I’m lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at University College Cork, where I have been since 2006. Previously, I was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, where I also completed my MA and PhD in the Department of Philosophy and was a junior fellow of Massey College. Prior to that, I read for a BA in Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology at St. Anne’s College in Oxford.

My research is at the intersection of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition and Philosophy of Science; I’m especially interested in the concepts of emergence and explanation, the use of dynamical systems theory in cognitive science, and the “extended mind” hypothesis.