I'm an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. From 2020 to 2023 I was an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis; before that I was a postdoc at Oxford for three years after getting my PhD at CUNY in 2017.

I work primarily in philosophy of mind and cognitive science, but I have broad research interests including philosophy of language, aesthetics, and early modern philosophy.

Much of my research concerns distinctions between kinds of mental representations (such as iconic and discursive formats), mental processes (such as inference and association), and mental systems (such as perception and cognition).

I'm currently working on projects on the structure of concepts and lexical meaning, the function of rationalization, the compositional nature of icons, and the language of thought.

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