Journal Papers and Book Chapters

• Beaton, M. (2016) Sensorimotor Direct Realism: How We Enact Our World. Constructivist Foundations 11(2): 265-276
• Beaton, M. (2016) The Personal level in Sensorimotor Theory (Author's response to commentaries). Constructivist Foundations 11(2): 289-294
• Beaton, M. (2016) Crossing the Explanatory Gap by Legwork, not by Fiat (Commentary on Kirchhoff and Hutto). Constructivist Foundations 11(2): 364-366
• Beaton, M. (2014). Learning to Perceive What We Do Not Yet Understand: Letting the World Guide Us. In: Enactive Cognition at the Edge of Sense-Making, Cappuccio, M. and Froese, T. (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan.
• Di Paolo, E., X. Barandiaran, M. Beaton and T. Buhrmann (2014) Learning to perceive in the sensorimotor approach: Piaget's theory of equilibration interpreted dynamically. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00551
• Beaton, M. (2013) Phenomenology and Embodied Action. Constructivist Foundations 8(3): 298-313
• Beaton, M., Pierce, B. and Stuart, S. (2013) Neurophenomenology - A Special Issue. Constructivist Foundations 8(3): 265-268
• Beaton, M. and Aleksander, I. (2012). World-Related Integrated Information: Enactivist and Phenomenal Perspectives. International Journal of Machine Consciousness, 4(2): 439-455.
• Beaton, M. (2009). Qualia and Introspection. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 16(5): 88-110.
• Beaton, M. (2006). A Recipe for Success? - Response to de Quincey. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 13(4): 13-15.
• Beaton, M. (2006). Review of Tamar Szabó Gendler and John Hawthorne (eds.), ‘Perceptual Experience’. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 13(4): 120-124.
• Beaton, M. (2005). What RoboDennett Still Doesn’t Know. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 12(12): 3-25.

Thesis

• Beaton, M. (2009). “An Analysis of Qualitative Feel as the Introspectible Subjective Aspect of a Space of Reasons.”, University of Sussex D.Phil. (Ph.D.) thesis.

Invited Talks

• Alergic Talk, 19 Oct 2016, University of Sussex, Sensorimotor Direct Realism: How We Enact Our World (Invited Talk)
• FEEL Workshop, 31 May 2016, Université Paris Decartes, Sensorimotor Direct Realism: How We Enact Our World (Invited Talk)
• John Searle Lectures, 17-19 May 2016, University of Bochum, Sensorimotor Direct Realism: How We Enact Our World (Invited Talk)
• COGS Seminar, 18 February 2014, University of Sussex, Linking Perception and Understanding (Invited Talk)
• 5th Meeting of Prof. Thomas Metzinger’s Mainzer Nachwuchsgruppe “Philosophie Des Geistes”, on Metacognition, October 20-22 2005, Conscious Experience as the Exercise of Grounded Concepts (Invited Talk)

Peer Reviewed Conference Presentations

• ASSC 17, 12-15 July 2013, San Diego, California, Towards a Scientifically Tractable, Direct Realist, Sensorimotor Account of Experience (Talk)
• ReteCog II Workshop, 17-18 January 2013, University of Zaragoza, Spain, Embodied Action and Neurophenomenology (Talk)
• CEP 2012 Conference on Neurophenomenology, 15-16 September 2012, University of Bristol, UK, Embodied Action and Neurophenomenology (Talk)
• Froese, T., Ikegami, T. and Beaton, M. (2012) The Ninth International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EvoLang IX), 13-16 March 2012, Kyoto, Japan, Non-Human Primates Cannot Decontextualize and Objectify the Actions of their Specifics (Talk)
• Aleksander, I. and Beaton M. (2011) AISB'11, 4-7 April 2011, University of York, UK, World-Related Integrated Information: Enactivist and Phenomenal Perspectives (Talk)
• ASSC 13, 5-8 June 2009, Berlin, Germany, Qualia and Introspection (Talk)
• Second European Summer School on Consciousness: Consciousness and Action, 4-6 June 2007, Cargèse, Corsica, France, Functional-Homuncular Explanation (Poster)
• CEP 10, 15-17 September 2006, St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford, The Boundaries of the Conceptual (Talk)
• ASSC 10, 23-26 June 2006, St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford, Animal Consciousness (Talk)
• ASSC 9 Satellite Meeting: Problems of Space and Time in Perception and Action, 28 June 2005, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, Filling-in the Perceived Void in the Flash-Lag Effect, Beaton, M., Watanabe, K. and Nijhawan, R. (Poster)
• ASSC 9, 24-27 June 2005, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, Conscious Experience as Sensorimotor Conceptual Grounding (Poster)
• CEP 8, 17-19 September 2004, St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford, The Self as Thinly Veiled Confabulation (Talk)
• European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), 22-26 August 2004, Budapest, Hungary, Grayer than Gray: Achromatic Contrast of Perceptually Lagging Flashed Object is Preserved, Beaton, M., Nijhawan, R. and Khurana, B. (Poster)
• SPP/ESPP, 3-6 July 2004, Barcelona, Spain, A New Psychophysical Model of the Flash-Lag Effect, Michael Beaton and Romi Nijhawan (Talk)
• ASSC 8, 26-28 June 2004, Antwerp, Belgium, A Proposal for a Modification to the Higher Order Thought Theory of Consciousness (Poster)
• Toward a Science of Consciousness, 7-11 April 2004, Tucson, AZ, What RoboDennett Still Doesn’t Know (Poster/Talk, awarded Best Student Paper)