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I am a researcher working at the interface of philosophy and the cognitive and social sciences. I supervise HDR (higher degree by research) students; and I am lecturing in both theoretical and practical philosophy. My research investigates cultural phenomena that are distinctive of the ways human persons and groups learn and form their identities. This has led me to explore the creation of works of art, the functions of cultural learning, the roles of historical thought in decision making, the sciences of person identification, violence motivated by morals and identities, and the significance of Indigenous philosophies. My published works include an interdisciplinary framework for the science of art appreciation, a tripartite model of music appreciation, a model of the identification of human persons, and a study on the factors that cause violence. My research method is guided by the attempt to integrate into coherent models the descriptive insights provided by the psychological sciences with normative and contextualist inquiries led by philosophers, historians, and social scientists. I am passionately engaged in collaborations with Indigenous researchers, and I collaborate with Indigenous archaeologists to foster truth-telling and decolonisation in Australia. I hold a PhD in cognitive science from the EHESS in Paris and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. I have studied and worked in academic roles in Australia, Canada, France, Turkey, and the United States.

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Employment (1)

Charles Darwin University: Darwin, NT, AU

2016-10-03 to present | Lecturer in Philosophy (College of Indigenous Futures, Arts and Society)
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Education and qualifications (2)

University of Alberta: Edmonton, AB, CA

2009-09-01 to 2015-09-30 | PhD (Department of Philosophy)
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Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales: Paris, Île-de-France, FR

2000-01-01 to 2005-06-29 | PhD (Cognitive Science)
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Funding (2)

Indigenist Archaeology: New Ways of Knowing the Past and Present

2022-01-01 to 2026-12-31 | Grant
Australian Research Council (Canberra, AU)
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(Agent tracking and its disorders: a theory of the cognitive mechanisms, errors, and ethics involved in the identification of human individuals)

Works (42)

The psychological basis of music appreciation: Structure, self, source.

Psychological Review
2023-01 | Journal article
Contributors: William Forde Thompson; Nicolas J. Bullot; Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
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The decommission of I See Red: a case study in the relations between art and law

Research Handbook on Art and Law
2020 | Book chapter
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Empathy, honour, and the apprenticeship of violence: rudiments of a psychohistorical critique of the individualistic science of evil

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
2020-09-28 | Journal article
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A psychohistorical philosophy for the science of the arts

On Art and Science
2019 | Book chapter
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Conditional objectivism: a strategy for connecting the social sciences and practical decision-making

Social Philosophy of Science for the Social Sciences
2019 | Book chapter
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Group singing enhances positive affect in people with Parkinson’s Disease

Music & Medecine
2018 | Journal article
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Artistic misunderstandings: The emotional significance of historical learning in the arts

Behavioral and Brain Sciences
2017 | Journal article
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Art and Science: A Philosophical Sketch of Their Historical Complexity and Codependence

2017-11-03 | Journal article
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History, causal information, and the neuroscience of art: Toward a psycho-historical theory

Brain Theory: Essays in Critical Neurophilosophy
2014 | Book
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La théorie psycho-historique de l'art

Naturaliser l'esthétique? Questions et enjeux d'un programme philosophique
2014 | Book chapter
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The Functions of Environmental Art

Leonardo
2014-10 | Journal article
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The tracking and identification of human agents

Topics in Cognitive Science
2014-10-01 | Journal issue or edition
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Keeping Track: The Tracking and Identification of Human Agents (Editorial Preface)

Top Cogn Sci
2014-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Anina N. Rich; Nicolas J. Bullot
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Explaining Person Identification: An Inquiry Into the Tracking of Human Agents

Top Cogn Sci
2014-08 | Journal article
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Agent tracking: a psycho-historical theory of the identification of living and social agents

Biol Philos
2014-04 | Journal article
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Nature under surveillance: deciphering the core functions of environmental arts

In Future Nature, Future Culture(s): Balance-Unbalance 2013 International Conference, Noosa, Australia, S. Davis (Ed.) (p. 13-23), Noosa Biosphere Limited & CQ University Noosa.
2013 | Conference paper
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Artistic understanding matters to musical judgment

Physics of Life Reviews
2013-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Rolf Reber; Nicolas J. Bullot
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A psycho-historical research program for the integrative science of art

Behav Brain Sci
2013-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicolas J. Bullot; Rolf Reber
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The artful mind meets art history: Toward a psycho-historical framework for the science of art appreciation

Behav Brain Sci
2013-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicolas J. Bullot; Rolf Reber
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The artful mind meets art history: A psycho-historical foundation for empirical aesthetics

In Proceedings of the 22nd Biennial Congress of The International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA) (pp. C6-11). Taipei, Taiwan: National Taiwan Normal University
2012 | Conference paper
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Attention, information, and epistemic perception

Information and Living Systems: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives
2011 | Book
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Attention, Information, and Epistemic Perception

Information and Living Systems
2011-04 | Other
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Keeping track of objects while exploring an informationally impoverished environment: Local deictic versus global spatial strategies

Journal of Vision
2010-03 | Journal article
Contributors: N. J. Bullot; J. Droulez; Z. Pylyshyn
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Objects and Sound Perception

Review of Philosophy and Psychology
2010-03-01 | Journal issue or edition
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Editorial: Objects and Sound Perception

Rev.Phil.Psych.
2009 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicolas J. Bullot; Paul Égré
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Material anamnesis and the prompting of aesthetic worlds: The psycho-historical theory of artworks1

Journal of Consciousness Studies
2009 | Journal article
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Toward a theory of the empirical tracking of individuals: Cognitive flexibility and the functions of attention in integrated tracking

Philosophical Psychology
2009-06 | Journal article
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Keeping Track of Invisible Individuals While Exploring a Spatial Layout with Partial Cues: Location-based and Deictic Direction-based Strategies

Philosophical Psychology
2008-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicolas Bullot; Jacques Droulez
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A study in the cognition of individuals’ identity: Solving the problem of singular cognition in object and agent tracking

Consciousness and Cognition
2007-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicolas J. Bullot; Patrick Rysiew
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An account of image perceptual understanding based on epistemic attention and reference

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
2006 | Book
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An Account of Image Perceptual Understanding Based on Epistemic Attention and Reference

Smart Graphics
2006 | Other
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La Construction de l'objet perçu, Recherches sur la perception singulière des objets physiques, l'attention épistémique et l’identification démonstrative

In Cognitio: Cahiers Romans de Sciences Cognitive
2006 | Journal article
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Object files, anchoring, sortals and the problem of singular perception

Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Vancouver, BC, Canada) (pp. 1062-1067).
2006 | Conference paper
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The principle of ontological commitment in pre- and postmortem multiple agent tracking

Behav. Brain Sci.
2006-10 | Journal article
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Chapitre 1. L’identification des objets et celle des lieux sont-elles interdépendantes ?

Agir dans l'espace
2005 | Book chapter
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Part of ISBN: 9782735118625
Contributors: Nicolas J. Bullot; Roberto Casati; Jérôme Dokic
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Context-Dependent and Epistemic Uses of Attention for Perceptual-Demonstrative Identification

Modeling and Using Context
2005 | Other
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Tracking objects, tracking agents

Conference 'Referring to objects'. Interdisciplines, http://www.interdisciplines.org/objects/papers/5
2005 | Conference paper
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Sounding objects

Proceedings of “Les journées du design sonore (IRCAM, SFA)”, October 13-15 2004, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
2004 | Conference paper
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Keeping track of objects while exploring a spatial layout with partial cues: Location-based and direction-based strategies

Journal of Vision
2004-08-01 | Journal article
Contributors: N. J. Bullot; J. Droulez; C. Morvan; Z. W. Pylyshyn
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Attention épistémique et identification démonstrative

Actes du Colloque de la Société de Philosophie Analytique (SOPHA 2003), Montréal, 26, 27, 28 septembre 2003: ‘Langage, Pensée, Action’ Public@tions Electroniques de Philosophi@ Scienti@e.
2003 | Conference paper
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Objects and aesthetic attention

Interdisciplines, http://www.interdisciplines.org/artcog/papers/5
2003 | Conference paper
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History, Causal Information, and the Neuroscience of Art

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