Steve studied philosophy at Sussex and Oxford in the 1960s and early 1970s. His doctoral thesis was on ethics. He
became interested in philosophical questions concerning non-human and artificial minds, in particular on their ethical status. This led to a change of research emphasis towards artificial intelligence and cognitive and consciousness science. For the last couple of decades he has worked in a number interdisciplinary contexts around AI, situated cognition and consciousness. In recent years he has taught and researched in informatics and psychology departments at Middlesex University, Sussex University, and Goldsmiths College, University of London. Steve is now Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Science at Middlesex and a visiting Senior Research Fellow at Sussex. He is currently editing a two-volume special issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences on ‘Enactive Experience’; a volume of Artificial Intelligence and Society on ‘Ethics and Artificial Agents’; and is joint editor of a forthcoming issue of Journal of Consciousness Studies on ‘Machine Consciousness’. He has played an active role in the British Psychological Society’s special interest group on Consciousness and Experiential Psychology.
became interested in philosophical questions concerning non-human and artificial minds, in particular on their ethical status. This led to a change of research emphasis towards artificial intelligence and cognitive and consciousness science. For the last couple of decades he has worked in a number interdisciplinary contexts around AI, situated cognition and consciousness. In recent years he has taught and researched in informatics and psychology departments at Middlesex University, Sussex University, and Goldsmiths College, University of London. Steve is now Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Science at Middlesex and a visiting Senior Research Fellow at Sussex. He is currently editing a two-volume special issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences on ‘Enactive Experience’; a volume of Artificial Intelligence and Society on ‘Ethics and Artificial Agents’; and is joint editor of a forthcoming issue of Journal of Consciousness Studies on ‘Machine Consciousness’. He has played an active role in the British Psychological Society’s special interest group on Consciousness and Experiential Psychology.