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Dr. Walter Veit

External Member (University of Sydney)

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Walter Veit is a member of the Theory and Method in Biosciences group (The Griffiths Lab) at the Charles Perkins Centre (Australia’s leading medical research institute) and an interdisciplinary PhD candidate in the School of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Science. Currently, he is a visitor at the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge in Nicola S. Clayton’s comparative cognition lab to bring my framework for the study of consciousness into practice. Previously, he has been a visitor at and affiliated with the Foundations of Animal Sentience project (ASENT) and The Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS) at the London School of Economics and Political Science under the sponsorship of Jonathan Birch.

Interests

Veit's interests stretching widely across science and philosophy. His primary research interests are located at the intersection of the biological, social, and mind sciences in addition to empirically informed philosophy and ethics. For a glimpse of his work, you can watch this talk of his on the evolution of multicellular organisms or take a look at his list of publications which now includes over 50 papers.