Philosophy of Mind student
Philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and the architecture of agency.
I'm Marianne McAllister, a philosophy graduate from Macquarie University working at the intersection of predictive processing, philosophy of mind, and free will/agency — currently developing two research projects: Adaptive, and a working paper translating Bratman's theory of agency into the predictive processing framework
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I believe everybody deserves to work from the right map.
I'm a philosophy graduate from Macquarie University working at the intersection of philosophy of mind and predictive processing. My primary research project, Adaptive, translates predictive processing into a disciplined, self-directed methodology — alongside an active working paper translating Michael Bratman's planning theory of agency into the vocabulary of predictive processing.
Research areas
Predictive Processing & Bayesian Brain Theories
Investigating the mind as a hierarchical prediction engine — how precision-weighting shapes belief revision, and what that mechanism can explain about cognition, self-models, and agency.
Enactive Cognition
Exploring cognition as something enacted through an organism's dynamic engagement with its environment, rather than computed in isolation from it
Affordances & Ecological Psychology
Examining how features of the environment present possibilities for action, and how that ecological lens complements a predictive account of perception.
Moral Responsibility & Free Will
My original entry point into philosophy of mind — what agency and responsibility actually require, and how theories of mind bear on that question.
