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Alfredo Muñoz

Doctoral student

My main areas of interest are the philosophy of cognitive sciences and perception. I have worked on the problem of inverted qualia, and the presentation in experience of perceptual absences. I am a State Lecturer of Philosophy from the University of Santiago de Chile, and I received a Master's degree in Philosophy of Sciences from the same institution. My thesis focused on the study of manipulation as a cognitive prototype of causality and its metaphorical-embodied extension to cases of omission and prevention.

Currently, I am a PhD student in Philosophy at Universidad Alberto Hurtado. My research project concerns the study of the causal foundations of anomalous perceptual cases for human and artificial observers. This work allows me to explore new edges of the visual perception of ambiguous, underdetermined or hallucinatory stimuli, developing an analysis that ranges from the metaphysics of the underlying causal relationships, to the limits of predictive processing in cognitive sciences and its application in instances of learning and computer vision.