I'm Matt Watts, a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Miami. 

My research currently focuses on memory, mind, and artificial intelligence. But my philosophical interests are wide ranging, extending from existentialism and phenomenology, to social and political philosophy.

I am spearheading an XR (Extended Reality) initiative incorporating VR (Virtual Reality) and AR (Augmented Reality) into the classroom and exploring questions surrounding immersive experience, extended reality, and and how the use of immersive virtual reality ‘pumps’ (intuition pumps, empathy pumps, etc.) can help students connect with, and ultimately better understand, difficult philosophical ideas and topics.

I recently received the honorable mention for the Oxford University Press Teaching With Technology Award. You can read a bit about my work with XR in the classroom in this UM News article.