About Me
I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Davis.
I work in the philosophy of linguistics, at the intersection of philosophy of science, language, and psychology. I received my doctorate in philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2019. From 2020-2023, I was a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at Keele University, UK.
My research centers on the ways in which contemporary work in the linguistic sciences deviates from our common-sense, or "manifest", understanding of language, particularly where such everyday pictures of language are incorporated into philosophical theorizing. I aim to identify such empirical assumptions and the role they play in philosophical investigation, proposing alternative philosophical accounts of mind and language which better fit with what we have learned from the sciences.
I believe the disparity between our scientific and manifest pictures of mind and language can only be fully appreciated alongside a fleshed-out picture of the methodologies of science that enable our theories to dissociate from common sense, and so my work integrates traditional philosophical debates with discussion of both the results and the practices of the complex sciences.