I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the National Taiwan University interested in philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, social psychology, and education. Recently I have been focusing on methodological issues at the foundations of consciousness science. In particular, my recent work has explored how natural kind reasoning can allow us to move beyond a naive reliance on introspection, and offers an alternative route (alternative to theory testing) toward progress in consciousness science.
I am also currently writing a book (with Jakob Hohwy and Craig Hassed) on mindful rationality. The central theme of the book is that rational decision making requires more than just facility with formal tools for reasoning – logic, argument analysis, Bayes Rule, and so on. It also requires a suite of metacognitive abilities – attention, self-awareness, and emotional regulation. Through a number of historical examples – such as Goldberger’s experiments on the causes of Pellagra, Le Verrier and the planet Vulcan, the introduction of Cane Toads to Australia – the book aims to simultaneously introduce readers to formal tools for reasoning and scientific inference, and strategies for cultivating equanimity.