I am Professor in the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin. Prior to moving to Dublin in 2017 I was Gerry Higgins Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, Visiting Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University at Albany, State University of New York, and full time Visiting Instructor at Bowling Green State University. I received my PhD in 2013 from the University of St Andrews. During my PhD I was visiting researcher at Yale and Rutgers Universities. In 2022 I was American Philosophical Association Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. 

Most of my academic work focuses on early modern philosophy and lies at the intersection between metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and ethics. I am particularly interested in understanding early modern debates about selfhood, personal identity, and agency. My other philosophical interests include history of ethics, Scottish Enlightenment philosophy, early modern women philosophers, and social epistemology.

I was recently awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to lead the five-year project "New Histories of British Moral Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century (c. 1690–1800)" (ERC CoG BMoral, 2025–2030), which will commence in September 2025. This project aims to fundamentally rethink existing narratives about eighteenth-century British moral philosophy, which to the present day continue to focus predominantly on male authors, despite overwhelming evidence that women participated in the moral debates of this periods. The project will analyse a large corpus of writing that is inclusive of writings by male and female authors and intends to identify philosophical themes that have been neglected or understudied. Moreover, it will shed new light on the intellectual networks in which male and female philosophers interacted. By bringing togetehr computational digital humanities research with traditional philosophical methods of close reading and interpretation the project intends to overcome the marginalization of women philosophers in histories of British moral philosophy and to advance new methodological appraoches to the history of philosophy.

I am author of Locke on Persons and Personal Identity (Oxford University Press, 2021) and Catharine Trotter Cockburn (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Additionally, I have published journal articles in History of Philosophy Quarterly, Hume Studies, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Journal of Scottish Philosophy, Locke Studies, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy Compass, and Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement. I am guest editor of a special issue on New Perspectives on Agency in Early Modern Philosophy (IJPS, 2019) and guest co-editor of a special issue on Rethinking Early Modern Philosophy (IJPS, 2023).

You can find my CV here and you can also find information about my work on Academia or PhilPapers.