I'm an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Neuroscience Program at Rhodes College and an affiliated researcher with ANU's Humanizing Machine Intelligence Grand Challenge. I was previously a Research Fellow in the School of Philosophy at the Australian National University and a McDonnell Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program at Washington University in St. Louis.

My research is in the philosophy of cognitive science and neuroscience. I work on the nature of valuation and its role in theories of the mind. My current work concerns the prospects for genuinely moral artificial intelligence.

My curriculum vitae: [PDF]

Recent and upcoming events

• Visitor at Cambridge University's Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Center for Future Intelligence (Postponed to Summer 2021)

• "Evaluative Intelligence," Kinds of Intelligence 3, Cambridge University (Postponed to Summer 2021)

• TBA, Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri—St. Louis (Postponed to 2021)

• TBA, Research Group in Rationality, Action, and Mind, King's College London (December 7, 2020). (Online)

• "Indirect Moral Belief Change," Invited Session, SSPP (December 5, 2020). (Online)

• "Computational Cognitive Ontology", Cognitive Ontology Conference, Pittsburgh History and Philosophy of Science (October 29, 2020) (Online)

• "Passing the Moral Turing Test," CogSci 2020, Toronto (July 29-Aug 1, 2020) (Online)

• "Value, Addiction, & Proportional Blame," Philosophical Moral Psychology, Salzburg (July 8-10, 2020) (Online)

• “Prospective Memory and Weakness of Will,” Prospective Memory Workshop, Washington University in St. Louis (February 21, 2020)

Links

• Humanizing Machine Intelligence at the Australian National University

• Predictive Processing Workshop at Tufts

• Decision Making Workshop at Washington University in St. Louis

• Emory-Tibet Science Initiative, for whom I have taught Philosophy of Science