Research

I write about a bunch of topics, including the philosophy of mind, psychology, and neuroscience, as well as the history of science and early modern philosophy.

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Here’s a list of my papers, with links where available.

• Forthcoming. Gessell, B. “All Your Space Are Belong to Wolff: Émilie du Châtelet and Christian Wolff on the Concept of Space.”
• Forthcoming. Gessell, B. “The Legend of Hermann the Cognitive Neuroscientist.” Dialectica.
• Forthcoming. Gessell, B. “Resting-State fMRI and Conceptual Issues in Neuroimaging.” In Advances in Neurophilosophy, ed. Heinzelmann, N. Bloomsbury.
• Forthcoming. Gessell, B. & Janiak, A. “Physics and Optics: Agnesi, Bassi, Du Châtelet.” In Routledge Handbook to Early Modern Women Philosophers, eds. Detlefsen, K. and Shapiro, L., Routledge.
• 2021. Gessell, B., Geib, B. & De Brigard, F. “Multivariate pattern analysis and the search for neural representations.” Synthese 199, 12869-12889.
• 2021. Gessell, B., Stanley, M., Geib, B., De Brigard, F. “Prediction and Topological Models in Neuroscience.” In Neural Mechanisms: New Challenges in the Philosophy of Neuroscience, eds. Calzavarini, F. and Viola, M., 35-55, Springer.
• 2020. De Brigard, F., Gessell, B., Yang, B., Stewart, G., & Marsh, E. “Remembering Possible Times: Memory for Details of Past, Future and Counterfactual Simulations.” Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice 7 (4), 331-339.
• 2019. Gessell, B. “Mon petit essai’: Émilie du Châtelet’s Essai sur l’optique and her Early Natural Philosophy.” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 27 (4), 860-879.
• 2019. Gessell, B. “The Philosophical Background to the New Testament.” In New Testament History, Culture, and Society, ed. Blumell, L., 178-193, Religious Studies Center.
• 2019. Stanley, M., Gessell, B., & De Brigard, F. “Network Modularity as a Foundation for Neural Reuse.” Philosophy of Science 86 (1), 23-46.
• 2018. Gessell, B., & De Brigard, F. “The Discontinuity of Levels in Cognitive Science.” Teorema 37 (3), 151-165.
• 2018. De Brigard, F. & Gessell, B. “Why Episodic Memory May Not Be for Communication.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 41 e8.
• 2017. Gessell, B. “Indeterminism in the Brain.” Biology and Philosophy 32 (6), 1205-1223.
• 2016. De Brigard, F. & Gessell, B. “Time is Not of the Essence: Understanding the Neural Correlates of Mental Time Travel.” In Seeing the Future: Theoretical Perspectives on Future-Oriented Mental Time Travel, edited by Michaelian, K., Klein, S., Szpunar, K. 153-179, Oxford University Press.