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(Ph.D., UC Berkeley) His dissertation examined whether intentional content is normative in a fundamental sense, and how that would bear on a naturalistic approach to the mind. He is also interested in philosophical issues concerning science (esp. biology), language, and art, and some 19th/20th-century continental philosophy.