Contact details
Office Arts 2N11
Email andrew.richmond@otago.ac.nz
Andrew Richmond's website
Academic qualifications
2022: PhD Columbia University
2016: BA University of Toronto
Research interests
I work on the methodology and philosophy of science, studying how philosophy, cognitive science, and AI can help make complex systems, like brains and neural networks, intelligible.
My main projects:
- Elaborates and defends a pragmatic answer to that question
- Applies it to clarify and improve methodology in cognitive science and AI
- Traces its implications for philosophical and psychological theories of concepts
I also have projects in philosophy of mind (especially concerning how we conceptualize and engage with AI tools) and philosophical methodology (concerning thought experiments, case studies, and philosophical model organisms).
Teaching and supervision
I regularly teach in philosophy of mind, science (especially cognitive science), and AI. If you're interested in postgraduate work in one of those areas, please get in touch.
Publications
Richmond, A. (2026). What really lives in the swamp? Thought experiments and the illustration of scientific reasoning. Philosophy of Science, 93(2), 268-288. doi: 10.1017/psa.2025.10106 Journal - Research Article
Richmond, A. (2025). What is a theory of neural representation for? Synthese, 205(1), 14. doi: 10.1007/s11229-024-04816-4 Journal - Research Article
Richmond, A. (2025). How computation explains. Mind & Language, 40(1), 2-20. doi: 10.1111/mila.12521 Journal - Research Article
Richmond, A., Bowen, J. G., Kayssi, L. F., Küçük, K., Ravikumar, V., Şahin, M. U., & Anderson, M. L. (2024). Imposing vs finding unity. Cognitive Neuroscience, 15(3-4), 122-123. doi: 10.1080/17588928.2024.2405187 Journal - Research Other
Richmond, A. (2023). Investigating the concept of representation in the neural and psychological sciences. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1259808. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1259808 Journal - Research Other