Samuel Taylor

SFB 991 / CRC 991

Room: 23.32.02.64
Phone: 0211/81-03186
Email: Samuel.Taylor@uni-duesseldorf.de
Personal Homepage: Samuel Taylor

1. advisor: Gottfried Vosgerau
2. advisor: Markus Schrenk
3. advisor: Peter Sutton

PhD Project

In my research, I am interested by the nature of cognitive scientific explanation and the relation between such explanations and theories of conceptual structure and content.

Publications

2018. Taylor, S. D. (Under Review) 2018. Minimal content pragmatism. Grazer Philosophische Studien.

2018. Taylor, S. D. & G. Vosgerau. (Revise and Resubmit) 2018. The explanatory role of concepts. Erkenntnis.

2018. Taylor, S, and Sutton, P. (Accepted). A Frame-Theoretic Model of Bayesian Category Learning. Proceedings of CoSt16.

2017. Taylor, S. D., Noorloos, R., and Bakker, A. (2017), Mastering as an Inferentialist Alternative to the Acquisition and Participation Metaphors for Learning. Journal of Philosophy of Education. doi: 10.1111/1467-9752.12264.

2017. Noorloos, R., Taylor, S. D., Bakker, A., and Derry, J. (2017). Inferentialism as an Alternative to Socioconstructivism in Mathematics Education. Mathematics Education Research Journal. doi: 10.1007/s13394-017-0189-3.

2017. Taylor, S. D., Noorloos, R., and Bakker, A. ‘Mastering as an Inferentialist Alternative to the Acquisition and Participation Metaphors for Learning’, Journal of Philosophy of Education. doi: 10.1111/1467-9752.12264.

2014. Noorloos, R., Taylor, S. D., and Bakker, A. (2014). An Inferentialist Alternative To Constructivism In Mathematics Education. In Liljedahl, P., Oesterle, S., Nicol, D., Allan, D. (Eds), Proceedings of the Joint Meeting 4 – 321 of PME 38 and PME-NA 36, Vol. 4 (Vancouver: PME), pp. 321-328.

Conference presentations

11/2017 ‘Concepts and Naturalism’, Spotlight Talk, OZSW 17, Landgoed Zonheuvel, Doorn, Utrecht University.

09/2017 ‘Beyond the What is Said Debate: Towards a Theory of Communicative Success’, Fourth Philosophy of Language and Mind Conference, Bochum University.

05/2017 ‘The Representational Action Approach to Semantics: From Utterance to Content’, Guest Speaker, Propositions and Cognitive/Linguistic Action Conference, Heinrich-Heine University Dusseldorf.

01/2017 ‘Utterance and Content: Towards a Representational Action Approach to What is Said’, Invited Talk, Theoretical Philosophy Lecture Series, Utrecht University.

12/2016 ‘Conceptualising the Minimalist vs. Contextualist Dispute in Truth-Conditional Semantics’, OZSW Conference 2016, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.

09/2016 ‘What Can Frames Teach Us About Socio-Cognitive Development?’ Cognitive Structure 2016, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.

04/2016 ‘Frames and Socio-Cognitive Development: Is a Simplicity-Theoretic Account of Changes to Cognitive Structures Possible?’ Frames and Probabilities Workshop, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.

04/2015 ‘Scientific Realism, Representation, and Conceptual Analysis’. Graduate Conference in Theoretical Philosohy, Radboud University Nijmegen.

01/2015 ‘Pragmatism and Philosophical Anti-Scepticism’. Seventh Conference of the Dutch-Flemish Association for Analytic Philosophy (VAF), Theme: Scepticism, Faculty of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

12/2014 ‘Structure, Metaphysics, and Conceptual Representation.’ Invited Talk, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen.

12/2014 ‘An Inferentialist Perspective on Mathematical Objects and Practices.’ International Workshop on Logic and Philosophy of Mathematical Practice, The Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLWF), Vrije Universiteit Brussel VUB.

09/2014 ‘An Inferentialist Alternative To Constructivism In Mathematics Education’. Symposium On Inferentialism In Mathematics Education, School of Science and Technology at Örebro University, Sweden.

Last updated

09.01.2019