(B.A., Northwestern University) His main interest is philosophy of mind, and he is working on a dissertation that examines whether mentality is (or important aspects of it are) normative in some fundamental sense, and how that bears on a naturalistic approach to the mind. He is also interested in philosophy of science (esp. biology), philosophy of art, and some 19th/20th-century continental philosophy. He is currently a GSI for Philosophy 6.