(B.A., Classics, Oxford 2002; M.Phil., Philosophy, University College London 2004)

My main interests are in the philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychology. My dissertation is about some ways in which our perceptual experiences depend on what we know and on what we attend to, and about their implications for the empiricist project of explaining our knowledge in terms of our perceptual experiences. I develop a notion of perceptual indeterminacy which I think is central both to understanding how perceptual experience depends on attention, and to seeing why this dependence does not threaten the empiricist project.

My wider interests include ancient philosophy, metaphysics and conceptual truth. I’m supervised by John Campbell and Alva Noe.

I run the Townsend Center Working Group in Philosophy of Mind, an interdisciplinary group in philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience.