Overview
Professor Silins works mainly in epistemology and the philosophy of mind, and has primarily published about the epistemology of perception, self-knowledge, consciousness, and attention. He also has research interests in cognitive science, aesthetics, and classical Asian philosophy. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in all of these areas, and he has supervised graduate students .
He joined the Sage School in Fall 2006, after completing a Bersoff Fellowship at New York University. He has also been a Fellow at the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University, and an Associate Professor at Yale-NUS College in Singapore.
You can find his cv and all of his published papers .
Research Focus
- Epistemology, esp. perception
- Philosophy of mind, esp. consciousness, attention and self-knowledge
- Aesthetics
- Classical Asian Philosophy
Publications
Selected
What is consciousness? Must we always be aware of our own conscious states?
2024 鈥鈥, Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind
forthcoming 鈥鈥, Australasian Journal of Philosophy
How well do we know our own minds, and how exactly do we know our own minds when we do?
2020 鈥鈥, Synthese
2018 "", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
2012 鈥鈥, in (eds.) D. Smithies and D. Stoljar, Introspection and Consciousness (OUP)
How does perception work? When and how does it justify our beliefs about the world?
2016&苍产蝉辫;鈥鈥, Blackwell Compass
2015 鈥鈥, with Susanna Siegel, in The Oxford Handbook of Perception
2008 "鈥, Oxford Studies in Epistemology
How can I sneak content about skateboarding into philosophy journals?
See my 鈥淪peak, Memory鈥 or 鈥淐ognitive Penetration鈥 papers above to find out
