Overview
Hi! I'm a fifth-year Philosophy PhD student at Duke. I received my MA in Philosophy from King’s College London, where I wrote a dissertation in philosophy of science on resolving the stalemate between proponents of reductionism and multiple realizability.
I'm interested in philosophy of cognitive science and general philosophy of science, and I work primarily on issues in non-human animal cognition and philosophy of AI. I am a member of the Imagination and Modal Cognition lab and the Moral Attitudes and Decisions lab. I also have interests in animal and environmental ethics.
In the fall of 2025, I spent three months in sunny Santa Barbara, California working with Colin Allen on topics in philosophy of AI and animal cognition.
I care a lot about making philosophical ideas and issues more publicly accessible. I've worked as a specialist philosophy teacher with The Philosophy Foundation, an organization based in the UK that teaches philosophy in a wide range of public settings, such as schools, hospitals, and prisons. I have also participated as a judge in the past years of the National and Regional Ethics Bowl competitions.
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Teaching:
Fall 2023: Introduction to Formal Logic
Spring 2024: Philosophy of Biology (co-taught with Daniel McShea)
Fall 2024: Introduction to Formal Logic
Spring 2025: Problems in Philosophy of Science
TA appointments:
Fall 2021: Philosophy and Neuroscience, Felipe De Brigard
Spring 2022: Paradoxes of Rational Choice, Benjamin Eva
Fall 2022: Introduction to Philosophy, Alex Rosenberg
Spring 2023: The Metaphysics of Free Will, Reuben Stern