Overview

One strand of my research is concerned with central issues in philosophy of mind and cognitive science, such as the nature of conscious perception, boundary between perception and cognition, and cognitive architecture. My dissertation is an attempt to approach these issues all at once through the lens of memory and time. In philosophy of time specifically, my work also examines the relevance of cognitive science to metaphysics. Both the starting points and methodologies of metaphysics entail, in my view, empirical questions about the human mind. So in both empirical and empirically-informed work, I try to answer or at least clarify these questions.

The other strand of my research is more practice-oriented. I am currently working on a number of projects at the intersection of bioethics and cognitive science, such as decision-making, nudging, and informed consent. I also have interests in research ethics (especially neuroscientific research), placebo, addiction, and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.

Articles

• No doing without time (with Peter Carruthers), Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2019, 42(e270). [DOI]

• What is so special about episodic memory: Lessons from the system-experience distinction, Synthese, 2022, 200(5). [DOI]

• Déjà vu may be gist recognition (with Peter Carruthers), Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2023, 46(e371). [DOI]

• Identity-based decisional capacity and psychedelic treatments: furthering the case against psychedelic ethical exceptionalism (with David Wendler), American Journal of Bioethics, 2025, 25(1). [DOI]

• Memory, anticipation, and future-bias (with Andrew J. Latham, Kristie Miller, James Norton, and Rasmus Pedersen), Philosophical Psychology, 2025. [DOI]

• A solution without a problem (with Anurima Chattopadhyay and Holly A. Taylor), American Journal of Bioethics, forthcoming.

• A paper on supported decision-making and authenticity (under review)

• A paper on temporal relief and future bias (under review)

• A paper on distortions of temporal experience (under commission for a volume forthcoming with CUP)

• A paper on temporal passage phenomenology (draft available upon request)

Recent & Upcoming Talks

• Philosophy of Time Naturalized.

• International Association for the Philosophy of Time 8th Annual Conference.

• 113th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

• 2022 APA Eastern Division.

• Time and Memory Workshop, Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Studies, University of Sheffield. 

• MindGrad 2021: The Consciousness of Time, University of Warwick.