I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science) in 2008, where I wrote a dissertation under the direction of William C. Wimsatt, Robert J. Richards, and Ian Hacking (Title: "The Reality and Classification of Mental Disorders"). I completed my M.A. from the University of Western Ontario (Philosophy) and my B.A. (First Class Honors) from Simon Fraser University (Philosophy and Psychology). In 2008-09, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia (Philosophy). 

My main area of specialization is philosophy of science, and I have broad range of interests within this field. In addition to general philosophy of science issues (e.g., explanation, underdetermination, natural kinds, realism, values), I have special interests in philosophy of psychiatry, and philosophy of the psychological and social sciences more generally. I also have research interests in the history of analytic philosophy, and especially, logical empiricism.