I am a philosopher at the University of Exeter. I work in phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science on topics like emotions, sociality, psychopathology, and human-AI interactions. Sometimes I also write about comparative philosophy and music.

Forthcoming

"In real life, everything feels so different": autistic, embodied perspectives on online sociality. Autism in Adulthood (w/David Ekdahl).

Music as autistic sense-making: toward an enactive framework of neuro-affirming music therapy. Journal of Consciousness Studies (w/Michael Hambrook & Zamir Kadodia).

AI gossip. Ethics and Information Technology (w/Lucy Osler).

Digital deathlessness: emotions and AI chatbots in pathological grief. In Phenomenology of Emotion: Embodiment and Vulnerability: Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychopathology, and Psychotherapy.

Lonely objects and obsolete affordances. In An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Loneliness (w/Lucy Osler & Tom Roberts).

Emotion regulation and technologies of world-making: music and AI chatbots as “grief tech”. In The Phenomenology of Emotion Regulation: Feeling and Agency.

#WhileWeWereGone: Political antagonism, control, and empowerment Online. In For, Against, Together: Antagonistic Political Emotions (w/Moujan Mirdamadi).

2025

Home as mind: AI extenders and affective ecologies in dementia care. Synthese.

Expanding the phenomenology of Social Anxiety Disorder: Loneliness, absence, and bodily Doubt. Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology (w/Lucy Osler & Tom Roberts).

2024

Real feeling and fictional time in human-AI interactions. Topoi. (w/Tom Roberts). 

Selves beyond the skin: Watsuji, “betweenness”, and self-loss in solitary confinement and dementia. Journal of Consciousness Studies. 

Ontological deprivation and the dark side of fudō: a commentary on David W. Johnson’s Watsuji on Nature: Japanese Philosophy in the Wake of Heidegger. Philosophy Today.

Vieses Implícitos, Hábitos Corporificados e Nichos de Desenvolvimento (Implicit Bias, Embodied Habits, and Developmental Niches). Síntese: Revista de Filosofia. (w/Felipe Nogueira de Carvalho)

2023

An ecological approach to affective injustice. Philosophical Topics.

Introduction: Loneliness. Topoi. (w/Axel Seeman, Emily Hughes, & Tom Roberts)

Affordances and spatial agency in psychopathology. Philosophical Psychology.

Biases in niche construction. Philosophical Psychology. (w/Felipe Nogueira de Carvalho)

Loneliness and absence in psychopathology. Topoi. (w/Lucy Osler & Tom Roberts).

Music and empathic spaces in therapy and improvisation. In Empathy and Ethics. (w/Jannik Mosekjær Hansen & Simon Høffding). 

Editor’s Introduction. Passion: Journal of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions. (w/Alfred Archer, Heidi Maibom, Max Gatyas, & Lucy Osler). 

Editorial: The shape of lives to come. Frontiers in Psychology. (w/Michelle Maiese,Arran Gare, Julian Kiverstein, & Robert Hanna). 

2022

Communing with the dead online: chatbots, grief, and continuing bonds. Journal of Consciousness Studies. (w/Lucy Osler).

Making space for creativity: niche construction and the artist’s studio. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (w/Jussi Saarinen).

Musical agency and collaboration in the digital age. In Collaborative Embodied Performance: Ecologies of Skill. (w/Tom Roberts).

ProAna worlds: Affectivity and echo chambers online. Topoi. (w/Lucy Osler)

Affordances and absence in psychopathology. In Affordances in Everyday Life.

Taking Watsuji online: Betweenness and expression in online spaces. Continental Philosophy Review. (w/Lucy Osler).

Loving nature with Candiotto and Watsuji. Constructivist Foundations.

The Mind-Body Politic and affective institutions online. Commentary on Maiese's and Hanna's The Mind-Body Politic.

The phenomenology of voice hearing and two concepts of voice. In Voices in Psychosis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. (w/Sam Wilkinson).

James, nonduality, and the dynamics of pure experience. In Pragmatist Feminism and the Work of Charlene Haddock Seigfried. 

2021

Finding (and losing) one’s way: Autism, social impairments, and the politics of space. Phenomenology and Mind.

Loneliness and the emotional experience of absence. The Southern Journal of Philosophy. (w/Tom Roberts). 

Enactivism, other minds, and mental disorders. Synthese.

Agency and atmospheres of inclusion and exclusion. In Atmospheres and Shared Emotions. 

Towards a wide approach to improvisation. In Philosophy of Improvisation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Theory and Practice. (w/Alessandro Salice).

Out of our heads: Addiction and psychiatric externalism. Behavioural Brain Research. (w/Shane Glackin & Tom Roberts).

2020

Agency, environmental scaffolding, and the development of eating disorders - commentary on Rodemeyer. In Time and Body: Phenomenological and Psychopathological Approaches. (w/Lucy Osler).

Lost in the socially extended mind: Genuine intersubjectivity and disturbed self-other demarcation in schizophrenia. In Time and Body: Phenomenological and Psychopathological Approaches. (w/Tom Froese)

Watsuji, intentionality, and psychopathology. Philosophy East and West.

Schizophrenia and the scaffolded self. Topoi.

Merleau-Ponty. In The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Emotions.

2019

Engineering affect: emotion regulation, the internet, and the techno-social niche. Philosophical Topics. (w/Lucy Osler).

Psychiatry beyond the brain: externalism, mental health, and autistic spectrum disorder. Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology. [pdf] (w/Tom Roberts & Shane Glackin).

Watsuji's phenomenology of aidagara: An interpretation and application to psychopathology. In Tetsugaku Companion to Phenomenology and Japanese Philosophy. [pdf]

Music as affective scaffolding. In Music and Consciousness II.

Musical empathy, from simulation to 4E interaction. In Music, Speech, and Mind. [pdf] (w/Dylan van der Schyff). 

Introduction: Empathy, shared emotions, and social Identity. Topoi. (w/Thomas Szanto).

2018

Mental institutions, habits of mind, and an extended approach to autism. Thaumàzein. (w/Michelle Maiese).

Affective affordances and psychopathology. Discipline Filosofiche. (w/Giovanna Colombetti). 

From wide cognition to mechanisms: a silent revolution. Frontiers in Psychology. (w/Marcin Miłkowski et al.).

Direct social perception. In Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition. 

Intentionality. In Oxford Handbook of Phenomenological Psychopathology. 

Musical worlds and the extended mind. In Proceedings of A Body of Knowledge - Embodied Cognition and the Arts conference CTSA UCI, 8-10 Dec 2016.

Musical scaffolding and the pleasure of sad music: Comment on “An Integrative Review of the Enjoyment of Sadness Associated with Music” by Tuomas Eerola et al. Physics of Life Reviews.

Editorial: Affectivity beyond the skin. Frontiers in Psychology. (w/Giovanna Colombetti).

2017

Rethinking social agent representation in the light of phenomenology. Clinical Psychological Science (w/Michele Poletti, Eva Grebhardt, & Andrea Raballo). 

James on pure experience. In Understanding James, Understanding Modernism.

2016

Extended emotions. Philosophy Compass. (w/Thomas Szanto).

Embodiment and affectivity in Moebius Syndrome and Schizophrenia: A phenomenological analysis. In Phenomenology for the 21st Century. (w/Mads Gram Henriksen).

Losing social space: Phenomenological disruptions of spatiality and embodiment in Moebius Syndrome and Schizophrenia. In Phenomenology and Science. [pdf] (w/Amanda Taylor-Aiken).  

Extended mind and religious cognition. In Religion: Mental Religion. Part of the Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Religion series.

The first-person perspective and beyond: Commentary on Almaas. Journal of Consciousness Studies. (w/Simon Høffding).

2015

Training in compensatory strategies enhances rapport in interactions involving people with Möebius Syndrome. Frontiers in Neurology. (w/John Michael et al).

Musicing, materiality, and the emotional niche. Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education.

Empathy beyond the head: Comment on "Music, empathy, and cultural understanding" by E. Clarke et al. Physics of Life Reviews.

The affective 'we': Self-regulation and shared emotions. In The Phenomenology of Sociality: Discovering the 'We'.

Scaffoldings of the affective mind. Philosophical Psychology. (w/Giovanna Colombetti).

At home in and beyond our skin: Posthuman embodiment in film and television. In Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television.

2014

Musical manipulations and the emotionally extended mind. Empirical Musicology Review. [pdf]

Interdisciplinary approaches to the phenomenology of auditory verbal hallucinations. Schizophrenia Bulletin. [pdf] (w/Angela Woods et al.)

Varieties of extended emotions. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. [pdf]

Dewey's rejection of the emotion/expression distinction. In Neuroscience, Neurophilosophy and Pragmatism: Understanding Brains at Work in the World. [pdf]

Affordances and the musically extended mind. Frontiers in Psychology. [pdf]

Emotions and the social niche. In Collective Emotions. [pdf]

Emotions and other minds. In Interiority/Exteriority: Rethinking Emotions. [pdf]

The phenomenology of person perception. In Neuroscience, Literature, and History, eds. Mark Bruhn and Donald Wehrs. New York: Routledge: 153-173. [pdf]

Introspection, isolation and construction: Mentality as activity. Commentary on Hurlburt, Heavy & Kelsey (2013), "Toward a Phenomenology of Inner Speaking". [pdf] (w/Marco Bernini & Sam Wilkinson).

Control and Flexibility of Interactive Alignment: Mobius Syndrome as a Case Study. Cognitive Processing. [pdf] (w/John Michael et al.).

2013

Merleau-Ponty on shared emotions and the joint ownership thesis. Continental Philosophy Review. [pdf]

Ontogenesis of the socially extended mind. Cognitive Systems Research. [pdf]

Phenomenology and the visibility of the mental. Annual Review of the Phenomenological Association of Japan. [pdf]

Empathy, enaction, and shared musical experience: evidence from infant cognition. In The Emotional Power of Music: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Musical Expression, Arousal and Social Control. [pdf]

The space between us: embodiment and intersubjectivity in Watsuji and Levinas. In Levinas and Asian Thought. [pdf]

Social perception and "Spectator Theories" of other minds. Commentary on Schilbach et al. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [pdf]

Watsuji’s phenomenology of embodiment and social space. Philosophy East and West. [pdf]

Empathy. In Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences. [pdf]

Background emotions, proximity, and distributed emotion regulation. The Review of Philosophy and Psychology. [pdf] (w/Somogy Varga).

Stop, look, listen: The need for philosophical phenomenological perspectives on auditory verbal hallucinations. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. [pdf] (w/Simon McCarthy-Jones et al.).

2012

Krueger, J. (2012). Seeing mind in action. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. [pdf]

(2012). Gestural coupling and social cognition: Möbius Syndrome as a case study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. [pdf] (w/John Michael).

Seeing subjectivity: Defending a perceptual account of other minds. ProtoSociology: Consciousness and Subjectivity. [pdf] (w/Søren Overgaard).

2011

Phenomenology of the social self in the prodrome of psychosis: From perceived negative attitude of others to heightened interpersonal sensitivity. European Psychiatry. [pdf] (w/Andrea Raballo).

Extended cognition and the space of social interaction. Consciousness and Cognition. [pdf]

Enacting musical content. In Situated Aesthetics: Art beyond the Skin. [pdf]

Doing things with music. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. [pdf]

The who and the how of experience. In Self, No-Self? Perspectives from Analytical, Phenomenological, and Indian Traditions. [pdf]

2010

James Austin’s Selfless Insight: Zen and the Meditative Transformations of Consciousness (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009), in Journal of Consciousness Studies. [pdf]

Philosophy of mind. In Encyclopedia of Identity (Vols. 1-2). [pdf]

Radical enactivism and inter-corporeal affectivity. In The Embodied Self: Dimensions, Coherence, and Disorders. [pdf] 

2009

Empathy and the extended mind. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. [pdf]

Dimensions of bodily subjectivity. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. [pdf] (w/Dorothee Legrand and Thor Grunbaum).

Enacting musical experience. Journal of Consciousness Studies. [pdf]

Knowing through the body: The Daodejing and Dewey. The Journal of Chinese Philosophy. [pdf]

The open body. In Enacting Intersubjectivity: Paving the Way for a Dialogue Between Cognitive Science, Social Cognition, and Neuroscience. [pdf] (w/Dorothee Legrand).

2008

Levinasian reflections on somaticity and the ethical self. Inquiry. [pdf]

Nishida, agency, and the self-contradictory body. Asian Philosophy. [pdf]

A Daoist critique of Searle on mind and action. In Searle’s Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy: Constructive Engagement. [pdf]

Ethical education as bodily training: Kitaro Nishida’s moral phenomenology of “acting-intuition.” In Educations and their Purposes: A Conversation Among Cultures. [pdf]

2007

William James and Kitaro Nishida on “Pure Experience”, Consciousness, and Moral Psychology. Ph.D. dissertation, Purdue University. [pdf]

Consciousness. In Encyclopedia of American Philosophy. [pdf]

Stream of consciousness. In Encyclopedia of American Philosophy. [pdf]

2006

Concrete consciousness: A Sartrean critique of functionalist accounts of mind. Sartre Studies International. [pdf]

James on experience and the extended mind. Contemporary Pragmatism. [pdf]

The varieties of pure experience: William James and Kitaro Nishida on consciousness and embodiment. William James Studies. [link]