Supervision

Primary supervisor – PhD

DatesName, thesisDiscipline
2019-2022Sara Kim Hjortborg,
Antagonistic interaction in martial arts: fighting fast and slow		Cognitive Science
2018-2021McArthur Henare Mingon,
The cognitive ecology of the Maori haka 		Cognitive Science
2013-2020Sarah Pini
Dancing Bodies, Shaped Minds: An ecological approach to kinaesthetic intelligence		Cognitive Science
2013-2016Mirko Farina
Plasticity, Embodiment, and Learning: an integrative approach to sensory substitution devices and embodied, enculturated skills,		Cognitive Science
2012-2015Chris McCarroll
Point of View in Personal Memory: a philosophical investigation		Cognitive Science
2011-2015Marina Trakas
Personal Memories
Co-tutelle with Insitut Jean Nicod, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris – Jérôme Dokic (Insitut Nicod)		Cognitive Science
2010-2014Richard Heersmink
The Varieties of Situated Cognitive Systems: embodied agents, cognitive artifacts, and scientific practice		Cognitive Science
2008-2012Stephane (Stef) Savanah
The Threshold of Self-Consciousness		Cognitive Science
2008-2012Melanie Rosen
Dream Pluralism: a philosophy of the dreaming mind		Cognitive Science
2008-2011Wes Rajkowski
Conceptualising Experience: what human expressions suggest about cognition 		Art, Griffith University
2007-2009Glenn Carruthers
A Cognitive Model of Self-Consciousness          		Cognitive Science
2007-2009Celia Harris (supervised with Amanda Barnier)
Social Aspects of Memory: costs and benefits of collaborative recall                		Cognitive Science
2004-2008Anne Monchamp
Ilewerr: a philosophical and ethnographic study of autobiographical remembering in the Central Desert of Australia		Philosophy & Anthropology
2003-2008Russell Downham
The Significance of Experiential Memory                        		Philosophy
2000-2008Carl Windhorst
Believing the Past: the psychological mechanisms responsible for the construction of autobiographical memories		Philosophy
1999-2008John Buckmaster
Cinematic Memories: cinema as a metaphor of memory		Philosophy
2002-2006Meta Regis
Mood Enhancing Fictions: a model of daydreaming and fantasy immersion		Philosophy
2003-2006Andres Vaccari
Machine Metaphysics: Descartes, the mechanization of life, and the dawn of the posthuman		Philosophy

Primary supervisor – Masters

DatesName, thesisDiscipline
2020
MRes		Samuel Jones
Emotion experience in skilled music listening		Cognitive Science
2017
MRes		McArthur Mingon
Cultural Learning, Embodied Cognition, and Music: a cognitive ethnography of Maori Kapa Haka		Cognitive Science
2010-2012 MPhilJordan Taylor
Emotions across Three Phases: a theory of a dynamic emotion system		Cognitive Science
2010-2012 MPhilKellie Williamson
Naturalising the Group Mind: the cognitive life of small groups and teams		Cognitive Science
2011-2012
MPsych		Andrew Attard (supervised with Amanda Barnier)
The Impact of Knowledge on the Collaborative Recall Performance of Experienced Firefighters		Psychology
2007-2008
MA (Hons)		Kevin Sinclair
Perception and Action		Philosophy
2003-2005
MA (Hons)		Monte Pemberton
Collective Memory        		Philosophy
2002-2004
MA (Hons)		Peter Farleigh
The Ideal of Mechanism: its strengths and limitations		Philosophy
1993-1994
MA (Hons)		David Jess
What happens when language games come into conflict?		Philosophy

Active associate supervisor

DateName, thesisDegree
2013-2018Doménique van Gennip
Materialising Memories in Interactive Media		PhD in Design
University of Technology, Sydney and Eindhoven
2012-2016Adam Hreschuk
Ritual, Religion, and Magic: a neurocognitive approach to religious practice in Roman Egypt		PhD
Ancient History
2012-2016Aline Cordonnier
Autobiographical Thinking: processes and outcomes of thinking about personal past and future events		PhD
Cognitive Science
2010-2015Li Mei Chew
A Direct Realist Understanding of Memory Errors		PhD
Psychology
2010-2015Misia Temler
Autobiographical Memory Variation Across Retellings: social and individual factors		PhD
Cognitive Science
2010-2015Amanda Selwood
Collaborative and Autobiographical Memory in Strangers, Friends, Siblings, and Twins		PhD
Cognitive Science
2011-2013Michael Kirchhoff
Diachronic Metaphysical Building Relations: towards the metaphysics of extended cognition		PhD
Philosophy
2010-2013Kay Leiper
Education, Literacy, and its Cognitive Effects: problem-solving and decision-making in Homer and archaic and 5th-century BC Athens		PhD

Ancient History

 2010-2013Andrew Geeves
Seeing Yellow: a grounded theory of the experience of music performance for the professional musician		PhD
Psychology
2008-2012Lincoln Colling
Joint Action in Music		PhD
Cognitive Science
2007-2011Paul Mason
Music and Movement: a comparison of capoeira and pencak silat		PhD
Anthropology
2008-2011Susan Green
Representations of Consciousness in the Novels of Virginia Woolf and Ian McEwan,		PhD
English
2007-2011Charlie Stone
From Autobiographical Memory to Collective Memory		PhD
Cognitive Science
2008-2011Lucas Bietti
Memory, Discourse, and Interaction: remembering in context and history		PhD
Linguistics
2007-2011Wilson Cooper
Mental Causation		PhD
Philosophy
2000-2006Maria Trochatos
Concepts and Categorization in Common Sense Psychology		PhD
Philosophy
2003-2004Tom Evans
The Metaphysics of Free Will		MA Hons
Philosophy

Primary supervisor – Honours students

DateName, thesisDiscipline
2012Daniel Kilov
Knowing How: a contemporary re-evaluation		Philosophy
2009Andrew Attard
The impact of process interventions on transactive memory systems when the distribution of knowledge is controlled.		Psychology
2009Kellie Williamson
(Not So) Ruthless Reductionism: reduction and emergence		Philosophy
2002Sindhu Summers
Philosophy of Psychiatry, Depersonalization, and the Unity of Self		Philosophy
2001Oliver Granger
Bodily Constitution and the Capacity to Act		Philosophy
2001Adam Holland
Extended Cognition, Philosophy of Religion, and Resurrection Theology  		Philosophy
1994Ben Hall
Supervenience		Philosophy
1992Kim Atkins
Aristotle’s Rhetoric		Philosophy