Campus
- St. George
Fields of Study
- Philosophy of Science
Areas of Interest
- (2015) “A Mechanistic Framework for Darwinism or Why Fodor’s Objection Fails.” Synthese 192: 163-183. doi:10.1007/s11229-014-0557-4
- (2017) “Natural Agency: The Case of Bacterial Cognition.” Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 1-22. doi:10.1017/apa.2017.5
- (2017) “Natural Selection, Mechanism and the Statistical Interpretation.” Philosophy of Science 84 issue 5 (Proceedings). doi.org/10.1086/694008
-
(2020) “Biopsychism: Life between Computation and Cognition.” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 45:3, 315-330, doi: 10.1080/03080188.2020.1794381
Biography
I am a philosopher of science working on issues in the philosophy of biology, including biological agency, autonomy, and individuality. This work intersects with issues in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science on the one hand, and with issues in the philosophy of complex systems dynamics on the other. I’ve also done research in the philosophy of evolutionary biology on the concept of natural selection. I’m currently a postdoctoral fellow for the collaborative project with evolutionary biologists “Agency in Living Systems: How organisms actively generate adaptation, resilience and innovation at multiple levels of organization” (co-PI Denis Walsh).