I joined the FOR 2812 research unit in November 2022 as a postdoctoral researcher on project P3.
I'm also a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Centre for Philosophy of Memory in Grenoble, where I lead the EU-funded Remembering Objects (2021–24) project.
My principal interests are in the philosophy of mind, but these have often take me into epistemology, the philosophy of language, and metaphysics. My work primarily explores interactions between singular thought (or reference), memory, and perceptual experience.
I received my DPhil (PhD) in Philosophy from the University of Oxford in August 2018. I've since held postdoc positions at the University of Haifa (2018–19) and, as recipient of a Mind Association award, at the University of Warwick (2020–21). In between these, I was a Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh (2019–20).
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Reference in remembering: towards a simulationist accountOpenshaw, J., & Michaelian, K.Synthese, 203(3)
2023
(In defence of) preservationism and the previous awareness condition: What is a theory of remembering, anyway?Openshaw, J.Philosophical Perspectives, 37(1), 290–3072022
Does singular thought have an epistemic essence?Openshaw, J.Inquiry, 1–24Remembering objectsOpenshaw, J.Philosophers′ Imprint, 22Perceptual capacitism: an argument for disjunctive disunityOpenshaw, J., & Weksler, A.Philosophical Studies, 179(11), 3325–33482020
Thinking about manyOpenshaw, J.Synthese, 199(1-2), 2863–28822019
A puzzle about seeing for representationalismOpenshaw, J., & Weksler, A.Philosophical Studies, 177(9), 2625–26462018
Singular thoughts and de re attitude reportsThe research unit FOR 2812 "Constructing scenarios of the past: A new framework in episodic memory" is a project funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG). The research unit studies the cognitive and neuronal mechanisms underlying scenario construction in episodic memory. We employ and integrate approaches from Philosophy, Psychology, and Experimental and Computational Neuroscience.
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