My work addresses wide ranges of issues and kinds of phenomena in Psychology and Philosophy: e.g., Representation, cognition, learning, memory, development, consciousness, language, neural processes.
This is a brief description of the book that I am currently writing:
This is a work in the theory and philosophy of minds and persons. It presents models of how multiple mental processes are emergently realized, and of how social persons are constituted. There are several dominant basic theoretical and philosophical assumptions in contemporary literature that block such models of emergent realization, so the discussion is strongly embedded in analyzing these barriers and showing how they can be removed.
The general framework is that of process metaphysics, which makes sense of metaphysically genuine emergence, which, in turn, enables a model of normative emergences — the emergence of normativities such as function-dysfunction, representational truth and falsity, rationality-irrationality, and many others. Mentality is saturated with normativities. This mental-processes discussion culminates with a model of reflective consciousness.
Mental processes, in turn, serve as the ground and framework for the emergence of social realities and social persons. Language is at the core of these emergences.
The discussion addresses a number of related issues, such as the evolutionary emergence of such phenomena, how they can be realized in brain processes, fundamental child and adult developmental processes and emergences, and issues concerning the self-consistency of the model.