Dr Elizabeth Irvine
Senior Lecturer
School of English, Communication and Philosophy
- irvinee@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 4505
- 1.41, John Percival Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
I am part of the School's Philosophy team.
My personal website, with more up to date research, news, talks, and engagement activities, is here: https://lizirvinephilosophy.wordpress.com/
Biography
I studied for my masters in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, and got my PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2011. From 2011-2013 I was a post-doc in Philosophy of Neuroscience at the University of Tuebingen, at the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN). From 2013-2014 I was a post-doc at ANU working on the evolution of language on Kim Sterelny’s ‘Signs to Symbols’ project. I joined the Philosophy Department at the University of Cardiff as a lecturer in September 2014.
Publications
2022
- Irvine, E. 2022. Independence, weight and priority of evidence for sentience. Animal Sentience 32(10), article number: 423. (10.51291/2377-7478.1724)
2021
- Irvine, E. 2021. Developing dark pessimism towards the justificatory role of introspective reports. Erkenntnis 86, pp. 1319-1344. (10.1007/s10670-019-00156-9)
- Irvine, E. 2021. The role of replication studies in theory building. Perspectives on Psychological Science 16(4), pp. 844-853. (10.1177/1745691620970558)
- Irvine, E. 2021. Assessing unlimited associative learning as a transition marker. Biology and Philosophy 36, article number: 21. (10.1007/s10539-021-09796-0)
2020
- Allen, C., Viola, T., Irvine, E., Sedgmond, J., Castle, H., Gray, R. and Chambers, C. D. 2020. Causal manipulation of feed-forward and recurrent processing differentially affects measures of consciousness. Neuroscience of Consciousness 2020(1), article number: niaa015. (10.1093/nc/niaa015)
- Irvine, E. and Sprevak, M. 2020. Eliminativism about consciousness. In: Kriegel, U. ed. Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness. Oxford University Press, pp. 348-370.
- Irvine, E. 2020. Developing valid behavioural indicators of animal pain. Philosophical Topics 48(1), pp. 129-154.
2019
- Irvine, E. 2019. Brains blog on ‘Minority reports: Consciousness and the prefrontal cortex’ by Matthias Michel and Jorge Morales. Presented at: Symposium on Michel and Morales, “Minority Reports: Consciousness and the Prefrontal Cortex”.
- Colombo, M., Irvine, E. and Stapleton, M. eds. 2019. Andy Clark and his critics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Michel, M. et al. 2019. Opportunities and challenges for a maturing science of consciousness. Nature Human Behaviour 3, pp. 104-107. (10.1038/s41562-019-0531-8)
- Irvine, E. 2019. Explaining variation within the meta-problem. Journal of Consciousness Studies 26(9-10), pp. 115-123.
2018
- Irvine, E. 2018. Simulation in computational neuroscience. In: Sprevak, M. and Colombo, M. eds. The Routledge Handbook of the Computational Mind. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 370-380.
- Irvine, E. 2018. When is a code not a code. Presented at: 12th International Conference on the Evolution of Language. Evolang 12, Torun, Poland, 15 - 19 April 2018The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang12). Evolang 12 Organizing Committee pp. 168-170., (10.12775/3991-1)
2017
- Irvine, E. 2017. Memory images. In: Bernecker, S. and Michaelian, K. eds. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Memory. Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy Routledge, pp. 141-153.
- Irvine, E. 2017. Explaining what?. Topoi 36(1), pp. 95-106. (10.1007/s11245-014-9273-4)
2016
- Irvine, E. 2016. Method and evidence: Gesture and iconicity in the evolution of language. Mind and Language 31(2), pp. 221-247. (10.1111/mila.12102)
- Irvine, E. 2016. Model-based theorising in cognitive neuroscience. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 67, pp. 143-168. (10.1093/bjps/axu034)
2015
- Irvine, E. 2015. Models, robustness, and non-causal explanation: a foray into cognitive science and biology. Synthese 192(12), pp. 3943-3959. (10.1007/s11229-014-0524-0)
2013
- Irvine, E. 2013. Measures of consciousness. Philosophy Compass 8(3), pp. 285-297. (10.1111/phc3.12016)
- Irvine, E. 2013. Consciousness as a scientific concept: a philosophy of science perspective. Studies in Brain and Mind Vol. 5. Dordrecht: Springer.
- Irvine, E., Roberts, S. G. and Kirby, S. 2013. A robustness approach to theory building: a case study of language evolution. In: Knauff, M. et al. eds. Cooperative minds: social interaction and group dynamics: proceedings of the 35th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, pp. 2614-2619.
2012
- Irvine, E. 2012. Old problems with new measures in the science of consciousness. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 63(3), pp. 627-648. (10.1093/bjps/axs019)
2011
- Irvine, E. 2011. Rich experience and sensory memory. Philosophical Psychology 24(2), pp. 159-176. (10.1080/09515089.2010.543415)
2010
- Irvine, E. 2010. How alternative is the alternative?. International Journal of Machine Consciousness 2(1), pp. 41-44. (10.1142/S179384301000028X)
2009
- Irvine, E. 2009. Signal detection theory, the exclusion failure paradigm and weak consciousness: Evidence for the access/phenomenal distinction?. Consciousness and Cognition 18(2), pp. 551-560. (10.1016/j.concog.2008.11.002)
- Irvine, E. 2009. Shifting goal posts: first and second order access. Consciousness and Cognition 18(2), pp. 565-567. (10.1016/j.concog.2009.02.001)
Teaching
I am a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
UG courses taught or co-taught: Critical Thinking, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology of Experiment, Philosophy of Communication, Philosophy of Psychology, Animal Minds
PG courses taught: Philosophy of Evolution: Mind and Society, Science of Consciousness, Mental Architectures, Explaining Consciousness, Decision Making: Models, Mechanisms and Levels, Consciousness and Cognition
My main interests are in philosophy of cognitive science and psychology (inc. linguistics), situated within philosophy of science. At the moment, I’m interested in methodological questions in consciousness science, including research on animal sentience research. I’m also doing some work roughly in the area of philosophy of language/linguistics, exploring some of the implications of taking new research on the properties of dynamic linguistic interaction seriously. Related to this interest, I’m a member of the Cardiff University Language and Cognition Research Network.
Research interests
- philosophy of cognitive science and psychology
- philosophy of science
Supervision
I am interested in supervising PhD students in philosophy of psychology and cognitive science (inc. linguistics), particularly on methodological questions in consciousness science and animal sentience research.