I'm an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Neuroscience Program at Rhodes College and a Research Fellow in the School of Philosophy at the Australian National University. I'm also an affiliated researcher with ANU's Humanizing Machine Intelligence Grand Challenge. I was previously 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 (Summer 2020)
• "Indirect Moral Belief Change," Invited Session, SSPP (March 12-14, 2020)
• “Prospective Memory and Weakness of Will,” Prospective Memory Workshop, Washington University in St. Louis (February 21, 2020)
• "Moral Gridworlds", Faculty of Science, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney (October 21, 2019)
• CFI/ANU Workshop on Kinds of Intelligence (August 29-30, 2019)
• "Moral Gridworlds," Morality and Machine Ethics Workshop, Australian National University (August 23, 2019)
• "Valuation as a Sui-Generis Cognitive Capacity," Australasian Association of Philosophy (July 11, 2019)
• "Attention, Reward, and Value," Recent Work on Attention. The Australian National Univerisity (May 6, 2019)

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