Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Specialization

• Philosophy of Physics

• Metaphysics

• Philosophy of Mind

Areas of Competence

• Cognitive Science

• Epistemology

• Philosophy of Science (general)

Education

PhD Philosophy - University of California, Davis [2020 - 2026 (expected)]

MA Philosophy  - Tulane University [2018 -  2019]

BS Neuroscience & Philosophy - Tulane University [2013 - 2017]

Publications

"Centered Chance in the Everett Interpretation" (forthcoming). The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. https://doi.org/10.1086/732603

Invited Talks

"Four-dimensional Persistence in the Many Worlds Interpretation"

• Chico State University Philosophy Colloquium (October 2024)

Refereed Talks

"A Defense of Overlap in Everettian Quantum Mechanics"

• Philosophy of Physics Soceity at the APA Eastern Division Meeting (January 2025)

"Four-dimensional Persistence in the Many Worlds Interpretation"

• Society for the Metaphysics of Science conference (August 2024, online)

“OSR and Underdetermination in the Structure of Space in Quantum Mechanics”

• Berkeley-Stanford-Davis Graduate Philosophy Conference - UC Berkeley (April 2024)

"De-centering the Everett Interpretation"

• Society for the Metaphysics of Science 2023 Conference - Dalhousie University (August 2023)

• 21st European Conference on Foundations of Physics - University of Bristol (July 2023)

• Berkeley-Stanford-Davis Graduate Philosophy Conference - Stanford University (April 2023)

"Unlucky Branches: (Dis)confirmation in Many Worlds"

• Many Worlds Conference - Tel Aviv University (October 2022)

• California Quantum Interpretations Network 2022 Meeting - Chapman University (September 2022)

"Representational Deflationism: Eliminativism or Anti-Naturalism?"

• New Orleans Philosophical Society Graduate Conference - Tulane University (March 2022, held remotely) 

Commentary

"Mental Causation and Trope Identity" (Luna Cheng)

• Berkeley-Stanford-Davis Philosophy Graduate Conference (April 2025)

"For One Dendritic World" (Ray Å . Pedersen)

• Society for the Metaphysics of Science Conference (August 2023)

"Fundamentality and Ontology of Quantum Mechanics" (Bixin Guo)

• American Philosophical Society Pacific Division Meeting (April 2023)

"Visual Reference" (Ayoob Shahmoradi)

• Berkeley-Stanford-Davis Graduate Philosophy Conference - University of California, Davis (April 2022)

"Perceptual Learning and Reason-Responsiveness" (Zoe Jenkin)

• New Orleans Philosophical Society Graduate Conference - Tulane University (April 2019) 

Teaching

Instructor of Record

• Philosophy of Mind [Upper Division] (Summer 2025, UCD)

• Introduction to Symbolic Logic (Summer 2024, UCD)

• Critical Reasoning - (Summer 2022, UCD)

Teaching Assistant

• Introduction to Philosophy (Spring 2025, UCD)

• Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (Fall 2024, UCD)

• Introduction to Bioethics (Spring 2024, UCD)

• Introduction to Symbolic Logic (Winter 2024, Spring 2023, UCD)

• Philosophical Perspectives on Sexuality (Winter 2023, UCD)

• Minds, Brains, and Computers (Winter 2025, Fall 2022, UCD)

• Metaphysics (Fall 2023, Winter 2022, UCD)

• Introduction to Cognitive Science (Spring 2022, Fall 2021, UCD)

Service

Submissions Referee

• Philosophy 

• Berkeley-Stanford-Davis Philosophy Conference (2022,2024)

• New Orleans Philosophical Society ( 2019, 2020 [conference cancelled due to Covid-19])

UCD Departmental Service

• Departmental Graduate Representative (Fall 2024-present)

• Union Representative (Fall 2022-Fall 2024)

• Philosophee Event Coordinator (Fall 2021 - Summer 2022)

Service to the Community

• Volunteer Philosophy Instructor - Project Lazarus, New Orleans, LA (Summer 2019)

  • I taught a non-degree philosophy course at Project Lazarus, a transitional housing and support project for people living with HIV/AIDS and experiencing homelessness. Topics included metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and existentialist philosophy. 

Other Service to the Profession

• Conference Oganizer

  • Berkeley-Stanford-Davis Graduate Philosophy Conference 2025 

• American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting (2024)

  • Chair - "Are Emergent Mental Properties Just Double-Preventers" (Andrei Buckareff) 

• American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting (2024)

• • Chair - "Two Kinds of Quantum Perspectivism" (David Glick)

• Society for the Metaphysics of Science Conference (2023)

  • Chair - "Grounding Spacetime in Causation" (Baptiste Le Bihan & Sam Baron)

Honors and Awards

Davis Humanities Institute Working Group Funding

• $500 award for the Davis Foundations of Physics Working Group 

• Fall 2023, Fall 2024

Dean's Summer Graduate Fellowship 

• Summer 2023

Provost's Fellowship

• September 2020 - October 2021

Affiliations

• Davis Foundations of Physics Working Group (Founder, Organizer)

• British Society for the Philosophy of Science

• American Philosophical Association Pacific Division

• Llemmma (Logic, Language, epistemology, metaphysics, mind, and mathematics) Working Group (UCD)

• MENTaL (Mind, Epistemology, Neuroscience, Thought and Language) Reading & Research Group (UCD)