My research is driven by my curiosity about the mind and its place in nature. This interest has led me to analyze and illuminate the relationships between different explanatory accounts of the mind offered by philosophy and the empirical sciences.
Much of my work concerns the nature and structure of perception, how to conceive of the unconscious processes described by cognitive neuroscience, and their relation to our conscious experience and behavior.
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Papers Under Review
“Kant's Varieties of Consciousness”
“Kantian Discursive Cognition and Its Requirements”
“Toward an Integrated Theory of Perception”
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Projects in Development
Implicit Knowledge and Rational Agency in Kant’s Moral Philosophy
A historical project examining the underexplored role of implicit knowledge in Kant’s conception of rational agency and moral judgment, extending my prior work on his theory of consciousness and cognition in the Critique of Pure Reason.
Levels of Explanation and Cognitive Architecture
A developing project extending my analysis of the personal–subpersonal distinction to examine how levels of explanation illuminate deep-learning and computational models of cognition, clarifying conceptual challenges at the foundations of cognitive science.
Together, these projects aim to clarify how implicit forms of cognition shape both human rationality and our interpretations of artificial intelligence systems.