Dr Samuel D. Taylor

I currently work for the UK Government as a Legislation Policy Lead (Department for Energy Security & Net Zero).

My research interests lie at the intersection of philosophy of cognitive science and AI and philosophy of mind. My primary research focus is on the role of causation and evidence in cognitive science, and on the relation between cognitive scientific explanations and theories of mental structure, representation, and content. I am also interested in the nature of scientific understanding about the brain/mind.

I have published widely on topic in philosophy of cognitive science and AI and philosophy of mind, including: concepts, explanation, integration, mental representations, causation, evidence, the Bayesian mind/brain, scientific understanding, and mechanistic and nonmechanistic approaches to cognitive science.

Samuel teaches mainly in contemporary analytic philosophy, with a focus on the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of cognitive science.