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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. I also have some related projects on  the interpretation of large language models, the necessity of communication barriers in science, and the role of metaphysics in science. In all these projects I also take (and defend) a pragmatic/deflationist view of scientific concepts and explanations, which has led to my ongoing work on methodology in both philosophy of science and the psychology of concepts.
  • Richmond, A (forthcoming). What is a Theory of Neural Representation For? Synthese.
  • Richmond, A (2025). How Computation Explains.​ Mind &Language.
  • Richmond, A., Bowen, J. G., Kayssi, L. F., Küçük, K., Ravikumar, V., Şahin, Y., Anderson, M.L. (2024). Imposing vs finding unity.  Cognitive Neuroscience.
  • Richmond, A (2023). Commentary: Investigating the concept of representation in the neural and psychological sciences. Frontiers in Psychology, 14.​
  • Richmond, A (2023). What really lives in the swamp? Kinds and the illustration of scientific reasoning.  http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/22874
​Personal website with papers in progress, syllabi, etc: andrewrichmond.net​
An interview about my work, on the Jack Roycroft-Sherry podcast:

Where we are:
"The boundary-line of the mental is certainly vague. It is better not to be pedantic, but to let the science be as vague as its subject."
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William James, The Principles of Psychology