I am a researcher primarily working between the philosophy of mind and psychology, with overlapping interests in various sub-disciplines, from aesthetics to metaphysics.
The main thrust of my research derives from combining empirically-informed philosophy of mind and psychology with phenomenologically-led research.
To date, much of my research has a unifying theme: a focus upon how we experience and think about time and distinctively temporal phenomena.
Active Research Programs
I have four concurrent research programs, some independently pursued and some carried out with collaborators. These each fall within the philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychology.
1. The main focus of my current research leads from my work as part of the AHRC & FNR funded project, 'The Role of Cognitive Experience in Decision and Action', between the University of Liverpool and the University of Luxembourg. Based in Liverpool, I am especially concerned the relation between cognitive phenomenology and beliefs in the context of folk theories and processes of belief-updating.
2. My second research program builds upon my doctoral research, where I am interested in blending empirically and phenomenologically informed research into an investigation of our experience of time. Within this program I am also interested in how such issues are discussed in epistemology and in the history of analytic philosophy, as well as related topics concerning representations of activity and temporality in art.
My third and fourth research programs are collaborative and interdisciplinary.
3. Within the third, my collaborators and I empirically probe subjects’ naïve beliefs about time, and about temporal experience, and investigate how these relate to the more sophisticated models of time developed by philosophers and physicists. Some of this research has been published (Shardlow et al., 2021; Lee et al., 2022 – see the 'papers' tab above) and some remains ongoing.
4. Within the fourth program, my collaborators and I look to empirically probe subjects’ time biases, as manifested in action and decision making; especially in the context of the value that people assign to experiential memories of past painful and pleasurable experiences. I have specific interests in how people think about the utility of memory, and in how the bias towards the future may interact with the sunk cost effect. Some of this research has been published (Lee et al., 2022; Shardlow et al., 2025– see the 'papers' tab above), and some remains ongoing.
Aside from my research, I enjoy long walks in cold places, drawing, or listening to and playing music.
