James Stazicker

James Stazicker is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at King’s College London, based in the Department of Philosophy within the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and has held academic positions at New York University and the University of Reading. His research focuses on the philosophy of perception, consciousness, and attention, with a particular emphasis on integrating philosophical inquiry with empirical findings from neuroscience and cognitive science.

• Education:
  • Bachelor’s in Classics at New College, Oxford
  • MPhil in Philosophy at University College London (UCL)
  • PhD in Philosophy at University of California, Berkeley (supervised by John Campbell and Alva Noë)

His research interests include the nature of sensory perception as a source of knowledge, the role of attention in consciousness, and interdisciplinary work on action-based theories of neural and artificial information processing. He led an AHRC-funded Research Network (2016–2017) exploring action-based brain mechanisms, collaborating with roboticists and neuroscientists to investigate 3D vision without 3D coordinate frames. This work highlights intersections between philosophy, neuroscience, and AI.

Stazicker’s teaching spans philosophy of mind, psychology, and artificial intelligence. His publications emphasize conceptual analysis of perception, consciousness, and interdisciplinary methodologies. Recent work examines public understanding of pain and its philosophical implications.

• Collaborations: Robotics lab at the University of Sheffield, interdisciplinary workshops with experts in neuroscience, computer vision, and philosophy.
• Grants: AHRC Research Network (2016–2017) on action-based theories of neural information processing.

He is involved in public engagement through talks at schools and philosophy clubs, and his outreach includes exploring the ethical and conceptual dimensions of pain perception.