Publications
PDFs of my publications are available below.
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Burnston, D. C. (2023). How to Think about Higher-Level Perceptual Contents. Mind & Language, 38(5), 1166-1186.
- Burnston, D. C., & Tramacere, A. (2023). Distributed Loci of Control: Overcoming Stale Dichotomies in Biology and Cognitive Science. Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 14(1-2) 103-117.
- Burnston, D. C. (2022). Mechanistic Decomposition and Reduction in Complex, Context-Sensitive Systems. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 992347.
- Burnston, D. C. (2021). Bayes, Predictive Processing, and the Cognitive Architecture of Motor Control. Consciousness and Cognition, 96 103218.
- Burnston, D. C. (2021). Cognitive Ontologies, Task Ontologies, and Explanation in Cognitive Neuroscience. J. Bickle, A.S. Barwich, and C. Craver (Eds.) The Tools of Neuroscience Experiment: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives.
- Burnston, D. C. (2021). Perceptual Learning, Categorical Perception, and Cognitive Permeation. Dialectica, (75)1, 25-58.
- Burnston, D. C. (2021.) Contents, Vehicles, and Complex Data Analysis in Neuroscience. Synthese (199) 1617-1639.
- Burnston, D. C. (2021). Pluralistic Attitude-Explanation and the Mechanisms of Intentional Action. Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility, Vol. 7. (pp. 130-153). Oxford University Press.
- Burnston, D. C. (2021). Anti-Intellectualism for the Learning and Employment of Skill. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 12, 507-526.
- Burnston, D. C., & Haueis, P. (2021). The Multiple Senses of "Hierarchy" in Systems Neuroscience. F. Calzavarini and M. Viola (Eds.), Neural Mechanisms: New Challenges in Philosophy of Neuroscience (pp. 113-141). Springer.
- Burnston, D. C. (2021). Getting over Atomism: Functional Decomposition in Complex Neural Systems. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 72(3), 743-772.
- Burnston, D. C. (2020). Fodor on Imagistic Mental Representations. Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 11(1), 71-94.
- Burnston, D. C. (2019). Review of Angela Potochnik's Idealization and the Aims of Science. Philosophy of Science, 86, 3, 577-583
- 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. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-016-1116-y
- Burnston, D. C. (2017). Is aesthetic experience evidence for cognitive penetration? New Ideas in Psychology, 47, 145-156. DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2017.03.012
- Burnston, D. C. (2017). Cognitive penetration and the cognition-perception interface. Synthese, DOI: 10.1007/s11229-016-1116-y
- Burnston, D. C. (2016). Computational neuroscience and localized neural function. Synthese, 193(12), 3741-3762. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-016-1099-8.
- Burnston, D. C. (2016). A contextualist approach to functional localization in the brain. Biology & Philosophy, 31(4), 527-550.
- Burnston, D. C. (2016). Data Graphs and Mechanistic Explanation. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Part C: Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 57, 1-12
- Burnston, D. C., and Cohen, J. (2015). Perceptual integration, modularity, and cognitive penetration. Cognitive Influences on Perception: Implications for Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Action (Raftopoulos, A., and Zeimbekis, J., Eds.). Oxford University Press.
- Burnston, D. C., Sheredos, B., Abrahamsen, A., & Bechtel, W. (2014). Scientists' Use of Diagrams in Developing Mechanistic Explanations: A Case Study from Chronobiology. Pragmatics and Cognition, 22(4), 224-243.
- Bechtel, W., Sheredos, B., Burnston, D., and Abrahamsen, A. (2014). Representing time in scientific diagrams. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
- Uithol, S., Burnston, D. C., and Haselager, P. (2014). Why we may not find intentions in the brain. Neuropsychologia, 56, 129-139.
- Burnston, D. C. (2013). Mechanistic diagrams as search organizers. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: The Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1952-1957.
- Burnston, D. C., and Cohen, J. (2013). Perception of features and perception of objects. Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 12, 3, 283-314.
- Sheredos, B., Burnston, D. C., Abrahamsen, A., and Bechtel, W. (2013). Why do biologists use so many diagrams? Philosophy of Science, 80, 5, 931-944.
- Burnston, D. (2012). Naturalism and Scientific Creativity: New Tools for Analyzing Science (Review of the Book: Models of Discovery and Creativity, J. Meheus & T. Nickels, Eds.). Metascience, 21, 115-118.
- Burnston, D., Sheredos, B. and Bechtel, W. (2011). HIT on the psychometric approach. Psychological Inquiry, 22, 2, 108-114.