Areas of Specialization

Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind


Areas of Competence

Feminist Philosophy, Disability Studies, Animal Studies


Education

Ph.D. in Philosophy: Harvard University, 2011

M.A. in Philosophy: Harvard University, 2004

B.A. in Philosophy: University of California, Santa Cruz, 1999


Employment

2020-present:

Lecturer at Stanford University

2018-2020:

Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Stanford Univeristy

2014-2020: 

Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University

Affiliated Faculty, Center for Embodied Cognition, Creativity, and Performance at Stony Brook University

Affiliated Faculty, Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University

2011-2013: 

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Jackman Humanities Institute at University of Toronto


Fellowships

2016-2017: 

Visiting Scholar at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, California

2013-2014: 

Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science, Princeton, New Jersey


Publications

"Gilbert Ryle's Adverbialism," in British Journal for the History of Philosophy (August 2019)

“Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Concept of Motor Intentionality,” in European Journal of Philosophy (June 2018).

“Seeing What is Not Seen,” in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (July 2018).

“Skillful Action In Peripersonal Space,” in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (March 2013)

“What Does the Pathological Reveal About the Normal? Merleau-Ponty, Goldstein, and Neuropsychology” in Normality, Abnormality and Pathology in Merleau-Ponty, edited by Susan Bredlau and Talia Welsh (New York: SUNY Press, 2022).

“Embodiements of Sex and Gender: The Metaphors of Speaking Surfaces,” in Feminist Philosophy of Mind, edited by Keya Maitra and Jennifer McWeeny (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022).

“Gilbert Ryle and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Critique of Descartes: Or Skill in Ryle and Merleau-Ponty,” in Merleau-Ponty at the Limits of Art, Religion and Perception, edited by Kascha Semonovitch and Neal DeRoo (New York: Continuum, 2010), 63-78.

“Review of Does Perception Have Content edited by Berit Brogaard,” in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2015)

“Review of Starting With Merleau-Ponty by Katherine J. Morris,” in European Journal of Philosophy (2014).

“Neurophilosophy and Its Discontents,” in The Institute Letter (Summer 2014).

Substitutions and Detours: What We Learn About the Normal From the Pathological (Manuscript)

“The Perception of Empty Space” (article)

"Interanimality: Animal Mimicry and Empathy" (article)


Recent Presentations and Panels

“Animal Mimicry as Embodied Empathy,” International Society for Phenomenological Studies (Moreton in Marsh, England), June 22. 

“Animal Mimicry as Embodied Empathy,” Institute for Practical Ethics & Department of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego, Animal Minds (San Diego, CA), February 17. 

“Merleau-Ponty and Kurt Goldstein,” International Society for Phenomenological Studies (Kennebunkport, ME), July 31. 

"Between the Two Visual Systems Hypothesis," City College New York Colloquia Series, May 9

“What Can We Learn about the Normal from the Patholological,” International Merleau-Ponty Circle (Chattanooga TN), November 10. 

“Merleau-Ponty’s Concept of Motor Intentionality,” International Society for Phenomenological Studies (Kennebunkport, ME), July 26. 

“Philosophy Begins In Wonder,” Stony Brook University, Philosophy Department Commencement Address (Stony Brook, NY), May 20.

“Minds: Roundtable Discussion,” Stony Brook University, Philosophy Department (Stony Brook, NY), March 23

“Seeing What is Not Seen,” Stony Brook University, Faculty/Graduate Student Research Colloquium (Stony Brook, NY), February 24.

“Speaking Surface or Embodied Actor? The Metaphors of Social Construction,” Lehigh University, Metaphors in Use (Bethlehem, PA), October 8-9.  

“The Perception of Empty Space,” International Society for Phenomenological Studies 17th Annual Meeting (Kennebunkport, ME), July 27-July 31.

“Seeing What Is Not Seen” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division (Vancouver, Canada), April 4.

“Apprehending Consciousness,” Roundtable Discussion, The Helix Center (New York, NY) March 13

“Shape Skeletons and the Phenomenological Grasp,” University of Toronto, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design (Toronto, Canada), March 8.

“Skillful Action in Peripersonal Space,” University of Toronto, Workshop at the Jackman Humanities Institute (Toronto, Canada), November 29.

“Speaking Surface or Embodied Actor? The Metaphors of Social Construction” Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (Calgary, Canada), October 27-28.

“Skillful Action in Peripersonal Space,” Neurophenomenology: Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society (Bristol, England), September 15-16.

“The Perception of Empty Space (Poster),” Society for Philosophy and Psychology (Boulder, CO), June 21-23.

“Two Kinds of Bodily Agency (Poster),” Max-Planck Institute for Human Development, Interdisciplinary Workshop: Personal and Shared Intentions (Berlin, Germany), May 3-5.


Recent Teaching 

Graduate/Undergraduate

Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception 

Animals 

Other Minds 

Introduction to Phenomenolgy

The Normal and the Pathological 

The Extended Mind 

Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations 

      Undergraduate

Philosophy of Medicine 

Graduate

Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception

Feminist Epistemology 

Undergraduate

Philosophical Psychology 

Introduction to Philosophical Psychology 

Phenomenology 

Philosophy and Medicine 

Concepts of the Person 

Phenomenology 

Introduction to Feminist Theory 

Undergraduate

Analytic Feminism 

The Phenomenological Mind 

Perception and Action 


Professional Affiliations

American Philosophical Association

Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

Society for Philosophy and Psychology

Society for Women in Philosophy

International Society for Phenomenlogical Studies