Education
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego (Philosophy and Cognitive Science), 2015
M.A., Georgia State University, 2009
B.A. Rutgers University, 2007
Biography
Academic Interests
- Philosophy of Cognitive Science
- Philosophy of Mind
- Philosophy of Science
Selected Publications
- Burnston, D. C. (Forthcoming). Fodor on Imagistic Mental Representations. Rivista internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia.
- Burnston, D. C. (Forthcoming). Getting over Atomism: Functional Decomposition in Complex Neural Systems. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
- Burnston, D. C. (2017). Real patterns in biological explanation. Philosophy of Science, 84(5), 879-891.
- Burnston, D. C. (2017). Interface problems in the explanation of action. Philosophical Explorations, 20(2), 242-258
- Burnston, D. C. (2017). Cognitive penetration and the cognition–perception interface. Synthese, 194(9), 3645-3668.
- Burnston, D. C. (2016). A contextualist approach to functional localization in the brain. Biology & Philosophy, 31(4), 527-550.