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Andrew Richmond

Postdoctoral Associate

Rotman Institute
​Western University

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I work mainly in philosophy of science, blending methods from philosophy and psychology to study scientific reasoning. Currently, I spend most of my time thinking about cross-disciplinary theorizing between philosophy, neuroscience, and AI, and how the methods of all three fields help make complex systems, like brains and neural networks, intelligible. In all this work I take a pragmatic approach, and one of my main goals is to elaborate and defend that approach by thinking about methodology in philosophy of science and the psychology of scientific explanation.

(* = first/co-first author)​​
Forthcoming

• Richmond, A. What really lives in the swamp? Kinds and the illustration of scientific reasoning. ​Philosophy of Science.
• Baker, B.,* Lange, R.,* Richmond, A.,* Kriegeskorte, N., Cao, R., Pitkow, X., & Schwartz, O. Use and usability: Three levels of neural representation. Neurons, Behavior, Data, and Theory.

2025

• Richmond, A. (2025). What is a theory of neural representation for? Synthese, 205(14).
• Richmond, A. (2025). How Computation Explains.​ Mind & Language, 40(1).

2024

• Richmond, A.,* Bowen, J. G., Kayssi, L. F., Küçük, K., Ravikumar, V., Şahin, Y., Anderson, M.L. (2024). Imposing vs finding unity. Cognitive Neuroscience.

2023

• Richmond, A (2023). Commentary: Investigating the concept of representation in the neural and psychological sciences. Frontiers in Psychology, 14.​

In preparation or under review

• Richmond, A. Pragmatist philosophy of cognitive science (under commission, Philosophy Compass)
• Richmond, A. Computational externalism ​(under review)
• Richmond, A. Experimental philosophy of science: beyond taxonomy​ (in preparation)
• Richmond, A. Representation in context: neuroscience and explainable AI​​ (in preparation)

​Personal website with papers in progress, syllabi, etc: andrewrichmond.net​

An interview about my work, on the Jack Roycroft-Sherry podcast: