Philosophy
I received my PhD in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis in May 2021. I worked on the philosophy of mind and perception and the philosophy of cognitive science and psychology.
My dissertation is on event perception, a topic that has been largely unexplored in philosophy. I show that the existing talk of event perception in the philosophy of perception would benefit from rigorous development. On the basis of the empirical work on event perception, I argue that we perceive events. I suggest that event representations are over and above object and property representations and that we perceptually attribute temporal boundness uniquely to events. My dissertation was supervised by Casey O'Callaghan (advisor), Jeff Zacks (psychology), John Heil, Ron Mallon, and Becko Copenhaver. (PDF) (Open Scholarship)
In 2019, I published "The Causal Situationist Account of Constitutive Relevance" in Synthese. I present a new account of how to go about identifying the components of neural mechanisms. I argue that my account best fits three popular desiderata of such an account, relative to other accounts on offer. (PDF) (DOI)
I taught three undergraduate courses at University College at WashU. I taught Introduction to Logic in Summer 2017, for which I developed my own textbook, on the basis of an open source logic textbook. I taught Biomedical Ethics in person in Summer 2019, then online in Fall 2019.
From Spring 2018 through Fall 2019, I was an organizer of the WashU Mind and Perception Group. We hosted our own philosophy of mind speaker series on Zoom, bringing in anywhere between five and nine speakers per semester. We also organized a two-day workshop on cognitive ontology with nine predominant philosophers, neuroscientists, and psychologists who work on the topic.
From Fall 2016 through Spring 2019, I presented my research in the philosophy of mind/perception and the philosophy of cognitive science/psychology at numerous conferences across the US and Europe.