About

I usually work at the intersection of three areas: the philosophy of mind and action, moral psychology, and social theory. I'm particularly fascinated by phenomena that don't fit snuggly in either "the space of reasons" or "the space of causes," like the immensely variegated category of unreflective human performances. I wonder if such behaviors and competencies are reasons-responsive; what is their relation to the norms and practices we internalize; how they are constrained by our perceptual, affective, and cognitive capacities; and how they shape our character, personality, selfhood, and agency. I think that attending to debates in aesthetics can be especially helpful in answering these questions. 

I am also interested in pragmatism, phenomenology, and 20th-century Jewish philosophy. I think these traditions can shed invaluable light on contemporary discussions, and I do my best to incorporate insights from them in my work.

When I'm not doing philosophy - and sometimes when I am - I enjoy being outdoors, preferably with my partner, our friends, and some backpacks.

I took the pictures on this website. They're from Russia, Nepal, Israel, and The United States