About

I’m an associate professor of philosophy and the director of cognitive science at Montclair State University.

I like to think and write about how humans come to know––and how much they can know––about their environments, themselves, and the relation between environment and self. I explore these issues through traditional problems in the philosophy of mind (e.g. problems about about perception, introspection, and consciousness). You can find my published work below. 

Here’s my CV.

morganj [at] montclair [dot] edu


P U B L I C A T I O N S


Non-Inferential Knowledge of Perception

Philosophers’ Imprint, forthcoming

I develop an account of how one knows that she sees something. The account is compatible with the transparency of visual perception yet, unlike existing accounts, does not require that one perform an inference in order to know that she sees.

What the Senses Cannot ‘Say’

Philosophical Quarterly, 2022

Penultimate draft

To accommodate the representational limits of perception, I argue for a version of representationalism that is internalist with respect to spatial content.

Content Externalism without Thought Experiments?

Analysis, 2021

Penultimate draft

I show that a thought-experiment-free argument against content internalism opens up a parallel argument against content externalism.

The Phenomenal Representation of Size

Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2020

Penultimate draft

I argue that undetectable inflation shoes that we only represent relative size in experience. I also address a dilemma about the units in which our experiences represent space.

I argue that an objection to naïve realism based on its predictions about phenomenal similarity fails.


I N – P R O G R E S S


[a paper on why the problem of consciousness is hard]


Outside of philosophy, I like music, playing guitar & video games, collecting enamel pins that I never wear, and hanging out with my extraordinarily handsome cat Redford (pictured below).