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I'm an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at Indiana University Bloomington. Starting in 2025, I'll be a Humboldt Research Fellow at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. I recently earned my PhD from Yale. My research focuses on the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and metaphysics in the early modern period, with special emphasis on British philosophy in the long eighteenth century. My current project considers Hume's views on representation, skepticism, and intelligibility. I've also written on early modern theories of ideas, perception, and judgment.
Publications
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“Skepticism and the Idea of Body in Hume.” Forthcoming. Journal of the History of Philosophy.
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“Hume on Modal Projection.” 2024. Mind.
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“Fiction and Content in Hume's Labyrinth.” 2024. Philosophical Quarterly.
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“Locke, Simplicity, and Extension.” 2023. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie.
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“Leibniz and the Molyneux Problem.” 2020. Journal of Modern Philosophy.
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“Rationalizing Socrates' Daimonion.” 2018. British Journal for the History of Philosophy.
Teaching
In the spring of 2025, I am teaching a graduate seminar on Descartes and an upper-level introduction to metaphysics. In the fall of 2025, I taught a survey of early modern philosophy and an undergraduate seminar on Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz. At IU, I've recently taught courses on skepticism and the British Empiricists, as well an introduction to problems in metaphysics and epistemology. I've also taught a graduate seminar on Hume's Treatise (syllabus).