I am a postdoctoral associate in the Centre for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh and I will join the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso as assistant professor in Fall 2025. In 2023–2024, I was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Philosophy & Artificial Intelligence Research at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. In Spring 2023, I completed my doctorate in philosophy with doctoral minors in neuroscience and cognitive science at the University of Arizona under the co-supervision of Sara Aronowitz and Mark Timmons.
I specialise in philosophy of neuroscience and cognitive science, philosophy of AI, and general philosophy of science. My research explores the relationships between various forms of explanation, analysis, and modelling in neuroscience, psychology, and AI. I am particularly interested in ontological questions about scientific explanations—such as their accuracy and completeness conditions. I am also interested in identifying experimental strategies that can get us closer to more accurate and complete explanations.
A recurring theme in my work is that normative distinctions—such as between success and failure, rational and irrational, function and dysfunction—direct us to give different kinds of explanation for things with different normative status. Persistent disagreements about normative standards and their role in the science of reasoning, judgment, and decision-making constitute the so-called Great Rationality Debate, so I draw many of my case studies from these literatures.