Myrto Mylopoulos

philosophy of mind; philosophy of action; philosophy of cognitive science

• B.A. (Toronto), M.A. (Simon Fraser), Ph.D (CUNY)
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Associate Professor

Office Hours

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Courses for Winter 2025

• PHIL 2501: Intro to Philosophy of Mind
• PHIL 3503: AI: Philosophy and Ethical Issues
• PHIL 5701: Fall Colloquium

Research Interests

• Consciousness
• Metacognition
• Agentive Phenomenology
• Cognition-Action Interface
• Motor Representations
• Skill

Selected Publications

• “Skilled Action and Metacognitive Control” in Advances in Experimental Philosophy, Eds. Paul Henne & Sam Murray, Routledge Press. 2023.
• “The Proprietary Nature of Agentive Experience” in Consciousness (Blackwell Readings in Philosophy Series), Eds. Joshua Weisberg and David Rosenthal, Wiley Blackwell. 2023.
• “Motor Qualities” in The Philosophy of David Rosenthal, Ed. Joshua Weisberg, Cambridge University Press. 2023.
• “Neurobiological Theories of Consciousness” in Mind, Cognition, and Neuroscience, eds. Carolyn Dicey-Jennings and Benjamin Young, Routledge Press. 2022
• “Oops! I Did it Again: The Psychology of Everyday Action Slips”, Topics in Cognitive Science, 282-294. 2022.
• “The Modularity of the Motor System” Philosophical Explorations, 24, 376-393, 2021.
• Agentive Phenomenology (coauthored with Joshua Shepherd). In Uriah Kriegel (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness. Oxford University Press, 2020.
• “Unconscious Perception and Central Coordinating Agency” (with Joshua Shepherd), Philosophical Studies, 178, 3869-3893, 2021.
• “Default Hypotheses in the Study of Perception: A Reply to Phillips” (with Jacob Berger), Journal of Consciousness Studies, 28(3-4), 206-219, 2021.
• “Beyond Automaticity: The Psychological Complexity of Skill” (with Elisabeth Pacherie), Topoi, 1-14, 2020.
• “On Skepticism About Unconscious Perception” (with Jacob Berger), Journal of Consciousness Studies, 26(11-12), 8-32, 2019.
• “Intentions: The Dynamic Hierarchical Model Revisited” (with Elisabeth Pacherie) Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 10(2), e1481, 2019.
• A Cognitive Account of Agentive Awareness, Mind and Language, 32, 545-563, 2017.
• Intentions and Motor Representations: The Interface Challenge (coauthored with Elisabeth Pacherie), Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 8(2), 317-336, 2017.
• Neural Antecedents of Spontaneous Voluntary Movement: A New  Perspective (coauthored with Aaron Schurger and David Rosenthal), Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20(2), 77-79, 2016.
• Agentive Awareness Is Not Sensory Awareness, Philosophical Studies, 172(3), 761-780, 2015.