Post:	Tutorial Fellow
Other posts:	Associate Tutor (Biology and Environment)
Location:	Pevensey 3 5C08
Email:	R.W.Clowes@sussex.ac.uk
	Personal homepage
Telephone numbers
Internal:	8317
UK:	(01273) 678317
International:	+44 1273 678317

Research

My major research interest revolves around questions that have come to be discussed under the name of extended cognition or, the extended mind. This approach to human cognition attempts to explain some of the complexity of activities that human beings are capable of participating in as being best understood not by ascribing them simply to faculties of the biological brain - although this is undoubtedly important - but as developed and sustained in tandem with a vast array of external representational media and other tools. My main research project at the moment involves building cognitive models that might shed light on these questions. In particular I am working on a model of the internalisation of language. There are more details on my webpage

Teaching

My Office Hours are held in Room 5B8 Philosophy Office Hours are 2 to 3 on Friday

Publications

Clowes, R. W. (2003). Simulating the Regulation of Activity by Symbolic Systems. Evolvability & Interaction Symposium, Queen Mary University of London, University of Hertfordshire Computer Science Technical Report No. 393. Clowes, R. W. (2003). Action Oriented Adaptive Language Games. Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics, Boston, Lund University Cognitive Studies. Clowes, R. W. (2002 Autumn). "Review of 'A Mind so Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness'." AISB Quarterly(110): 8 - 10. Clowes, R. W. (2002). Modelling Extended Cognition with Adaptive Language Games. Cognitive Science Research Papers. D. Pearce. Brighton Sussex, University of Sussex, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences. The 14th White House Papers: 7 - 8.