Research

To see my list of publications, head to the 'Research' page.

My main research focus at the moment is on early modern theories of prejudice. I am interested in how this notion was used already in the early modern period to theorize misjudgements of people based on their presumed identity. My paper on Hume's theory of such 'social' prejudices appeared in 2025. I am working on several more papers on Hume's theory of prejudice. I have also written on Pierre Nicole's defense of 'legitimate' prejudices against people with different religions.

Related to my work on Hume, together with Dávid Bartha I guest-edited a special issue of The Southern Journal of Philosophy on 'Early Modern Social Epistemology' (2025).

My other research program centers on Spinoza, especially his philosophy of mind. My dissertation was an investigation and defense of mind-body parallelism, Spinoza's remarkable approach to the mind-body problem. An article of mine asks who was the first to interpret Spinoza as a parallelist. I have also written on Spinoza's views about non-divine substances, his socio-political conception of human nature, and his theory of confused ideas.

I am also interested in Spinoza's Dutch intellectual context. In particular, I am working on papers on Spinoza's teacher Franciscus van den Enden's paradoxical, 'democratic colonialism', including its vehement rejection of colonial slavery.

I have co-authored two articles on inferentialist philosophy of education. These articulate a view of cognition as inherently social and contentful that I find useful in my work in early modern social epistemology.