A philosopher of science and mind, Trey Boone conducts research at the intersection of philosophy, psychology and neuroscience. He has two main research programs, the first of which focuses on foundational issues related to explanation and causation in complex systems, particularly in the context of neuroscience. The second focuses on issues related to consciousness and perceptual representation and involves ongoing interdisciplinary collaborations.

His work has been published in top philosophy journals, including Philosophy of Science, Synthese, British Journal for Philosophy of Science and Philosophical Psychology. His research has been supported by grants from the Templeton Foundation and the National Science Foundation.

Trey received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 2019, and he trained at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh’s joint Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition. He joins the Department of Philosophy following a postdoctoral appointment at Duke University housed in its philosophy department and the university’s Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.

As an assistant professor, Trey will be teaching courses at both the graduate and undergraduate level on a variety of topics in philosophy of science and philosophy of mind, as well as introductory courses on scientific reasoning. His research will be focused on interdisciplinary work investigating conscious experience and the precision of visual representation, a set of projects focused on conceptual issues in network neuroscience, and work building off his dissertation research that focuses on reduction, emergence and causation in complex systems.