About Me

I work at the intersection of philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. I'm a professor the philosophy department at Colby, and before I got here I completed a PhD in Philosophy and a postdoctoral fellowship in computational neuroscience and at the University of Pennsylvania, and before that I received my JD from Yale Law School.

My research concerns the concepts and empirical methods we use to describe and study cognitive processes. For instance, I'm interested in the uses and limitations of deep learning systems for shedding light on questions in cognitive science, and I want to better understand how human embodiment shapes the ways we think. To that end I often examine cognition through the lens of dance and expressive movement. I also think a lot about the central concepts and methods of cognitive science and neuroscience, and about the impact that AI developments have on the way we promote and preserve human values.