Director
John is our Centre Director. He is a cognitive philosopher whose work addresses memory, skill, cognitive humanities, place, and distributed cognition. After many years working at Macquarie University in Sydney, he has returned to central Scotland where he was born and raised. He is author of Philosophy and Memory Traces: Descartes to connectionism (Cambridge UP), and coeditor of four volumes, most recently Collaborative Embodied Performance: ecologies of skill (with Kath Bicknell, Bloomsbury). His long-standing research projects have addressed collaborative recall, intelligent action, perspective in memory, and cognitive history. Recent papers cover context in memory, film editing, place memory, joint expertise, and Maurice Halbwachs on dreams. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory 