(B.A., UC Berkeley; M.A., Boston College). James works mainly in the areas of philosophy of mind and epistemology, and is especially interested in perceptual experience and the theory of concepts. In his dissertation, supervised by John Campbell, Alva Noë, and Alison Gopnik (Psychology), James defends a direct realist theory of perceptual experience and develops an approach to accounting for perceptual error based on the idea that appearances are relational properties of objects. For more details, see his research statement.

James is very interested in the empirical study of the mind, and is engaged in collaborative research with Prof. Tania Lombrozo (Dept. of Psychology, UC Berkeley) concerning causal theories of reference and conceptual structure. Here is a link to the website for a conference they recently organized on the philosophy and psychology of concepts.

His other philosophical interests include metaphysics, philosophy of language, ancient philosophy, Kant, and the Phenomenological tradition. A copy of his CV is here.