RESEARCH
My research focuses on the metaphysics of perception and the philosophy of mental health.
In my doctoral thesis, I developed an original response to the argument from hallucination against Naive Realism. I suggest that Naive Realists should conceive of hallucinations as genuine perceptions and that veridical conscious perceptions and perfect hallucinations have the same type of phenomenal character. My solution relies on construing (at least some) hallucinations as episodes of perceptual awareness of regions of space.
I am also researching topics in the philosophy of mental health, such as the nature of depressive states, psychological trauma, and the psychotherapeutic relation.
In Progress
A New Account of Depression
What is Psychological Trauma?
Digital Therapeutic Alliance
Drafts
Impossibilism: Hallucinations Strike Back (Manuscript)
Spatial Monism: A New Naive Realist Response to the Argument from Hallucination (Manuscript)
Under Review
(w/A. Raimondi) Seemings and Naive Realism (Under Review)
The Monist Strategy. Naive Realism and the Master Argument from Hallucination (Under Review)
Published material
On Philosophers' Hallucinations. Naive Realism and the Master Argument from Hallucination. Ph.D. Thesis UoN, 2023.
Are Hallucinations a form of Mental Imagery? RIFAJ 9 (1):78-97 (2018).