Research

I am primarily interested in philosophy of mind, epistemology, and metaphysics. I also have secondary interests in social philosophy and moral psychology as they intersect with my primary areas of interest. Generally speaking, I want to investigate how our relationships with others and with ourselves through time bear on what we’re justified in believing about ourselves and about the world, and what kind of actions those beliefs motivate. My research thus far has focused on questions regarding self-conception, self-knowledge formation, and agency, particularly in the context of our relationships with others. This has led me to a cluster of questions in philosophy of mind around mental causation, perception, and attention, questions in epistemology around belief formation, and questions in social philosophy and moral psychology around agency (particularly feminist accounts of procedural agency and agency under oppression).

• "Three Features of Self-Conception" Master's Thesis, San Francisco State University. 

Work in progress - Please email me if you're interesting in reading or discussing a draft!

• A paper on the phenomenon of "believing in us" in romantic relationships

• A paper on the ethics of friendships with companion animals

• A paper about fragmented joint attention

• A paper on large language models and self-concept-formation

Presentations

• “Epistemic Deference in Self-Conception”, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, 13–16 January 2027

• “Believing in Us”, Inaugural International Society for Moral Psychology Conference, Cornell University, 17–19 September 2026 (poster)

• “Believing in Us”, Philosophy of Breakups Conference, Conceptual Foundations of Conflict Project, USC, 17–18 August 2026 (poster)

• “Good friendships with companion animals?”, Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals Pre-Rocky Mountain Ethics (RoME) Conference, University of Colorado Boulder, 5 August 2026

• “AI and Becoming ‘Less’ Yourself”, 6th International Conference on Philosophy of Mind: Artificial Intelligence, University of Porto, 4–8 May 2026

• “Three Features of Self-Conception”, 40th Annual CSU Research Competition (Statewide-Level), San Jose State University, 24–25 April 2026

• “Are You a Person Without Me? A Connective Capacity Account of Personal Identity”, 5th International Conference on Philosophy of Mind, University of Porto, 19 May 2025

• “Are You a Person Without Me? A Connective Capacity Account of Personal Identity”, Berkeley-Stanford-Davis Graduate Conference, 5 Apr 2025

• “Clarifying the Feminist Critique of Binary Thinking: Examining the Human/Animal Binary and Species Designation”, Rice University Graduate Animal Ethics Conference, 8 Mar 2025