Research Analyst, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Thomas joined Motu Research in May 2022 after completing an Honours degree in Economics at the University of Auckland. His dissertation investigated the impact of large government debt on the effectiveness of government spending in New Zealand. Before this, he completed a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Economics and Finance, during which he spent one semester on exchange in London. At Motu Research, Thomas works on a diverse range of topics. His current work is on the impact of urban water pricing on water use behaviour in Aotearoa New Zealand. He is also researching the impact of employment in the arts on wellbeing.
Professor and Associate Head of Psychology, University of Tennessee Animal behavior researcher for over 30 years, 2016-2022 Associate Editor of the Journal of Comparative Psychology. Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society and the Association of Psychological Sciences.
PhD Student in Clinical Psychology, University of Memphis I am a graduate student currently enrolled in the clinical psychology program at the University of Memphis. My research interests are examining the effects of alcohol on gambling behavior, warning messages on gambling machines, sports betting, and working with concerned significant others of gamblers.
PhD Candidate in Oceanography, Texas A&M University I am an oceanographer, book lover, and avid adventurer excited to inspire ocean literacy, conservation, and community through scientific storytelling. Educational Background: Ph.D. Oceanography, Texas A&M University, 2017 – current B.S. Chemistry (ACS Certified), Montana State University, 2016 Research Interests: Climate Change Impacts on Calcifying Ecosystems Ocean Carbon Cycling Ocean Acidification Deep-Sea and Tropical Coral Reefs Oyster Reefs
Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge I recently joined HPS after three years at the Faculty of Philosophy. Before that I held posts at the universities of Warwick, Manchester and Glasgow and studied at the universities of Sussex, York and Cambridge. My research covers a range of overlapping topics in philosophy of cognitive science, metaphysics, aesthetics and applied ethics. My introductory book What is Philosophy of Mind? is available from Polity Press. For HPS I'll be leading Part II modules on the Ethics and Politics of Technology; Ethical Issues in Psychiatry and the Philosophy of Cognitive Science. I'm also DoS in HPS at Selwyn College and College Research Associate at Clare College. I'm partial to comics, cats and a good pot of tea. Research interests I'm currently focussing on the concept of affordances for mental action. Long-standing work in philosophy and psychology suggests that we see our environment in terms of the bodily actions we can perform in it e.g. you might perceive a teapot as affording gripping. I suggest we also see our environment in terms of the mental actions available to us. That is, you might perceive affordances to attend, to imagine, to deliberate etc. I've been exploring how findings in psychology and psychiatry can be helpfully reframed in terms of mental affordances and identifying avenues for future empirical research. I've also been exploring how social inequalities might shape our perception. With Paulina Sliwa I've been working on the hypothesis that gender inequalities in the performance of domestic tasks may be underwritten by socially-mediated differences in how affordances for domestic tasks are perceived. More generally, I'm interested in the idea that perceptual experiences (or patterns of perceptual experience) are ethically evaluable. Other topics I've worked on include: the contents of perception; mental action; cognitive phenomenology; self-consciousness; self-hood; artificial consciousness and artificial creativity; the metaphysics of consciousness; salience and attention; the limits of scientific enquiry; pathologies of agency and ownership; and the philosophy of film.
Chercheur Doctoral (Technologie, Relations Internationales, et Affaires Militaires) | Doctoral Researcher (Technology, International Relations, and Military Affairs), University of Kent Thomas Chevalier est chercheur doctoral à la Brussels School of International Studies (University of Kent) et travaille sur les questions spatiales militaires et les nouveaux domaines de conflictualité. Il est particulièrement intéressé par l'interaction entre politique, science et technologie, and imagination dans la fabrique des politiques publiques de défense. Thomas Chevalier is a doctoral researcher at the Brussels School of International Studies (University of Kent). He works on space military studies and new domains of conflicts. He is particularly interested in the interplay between politics, science and technology, and imagination in defence policymaking.
