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.
Papers Under Review
“Kant's Varieties of Consciousness”
“Kantian Discursive Cognition and Its Requirements”
“Toward an Integrated Theory of Perception”
Papers & Projects in Preparation
I'm working on some new projects, which are all in varying stages of development:
- A historical project extending my previous analysis and interpretation of Kant's views on consciousness, rationality, and discursive cognition in the First Critique to his moral philosophy
- A paper reexamining the personal-subpersonal distinction and the empirical literature on perception
- A related project identifying specific methodological issues and missteps at the conceptual foundations of cognitive science
- A new research program: This project aims to elucidate relationships between scientific and commonsense explanations in the medical domain. The project also addresses the cognitive consequences of those explanations for doctor-patient communication, patient understanding, and informed consent.
- A series of papers on the representation of objects in perception concerning their representational format, content, and the capacities required to achieve them (e.g., logical inference by preverbal infants)
- A paper that offers a new characterization of agnosticism as a mental state — rejecting "suspended judgment" and "settled indecision" accounts of agnosticism