I am an Assistant Professor in the department of philosophy at Binghamton University (SUNY). Before coming to Binghamton in 2020, I held an EU mobility research fellowship at the University of Hradec Králové in the Czech Republic and a Junior Research Fellowship at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford.

I work in epistemology, philosophy of mind,  and philosophy of AI. The focus of most of my research is self-knowledge and knowledge of other minds. I have three main current research projects. 

• Self-knowledge and knowledge of other minds in conversation, especially in connection with AI companions and chatbots. In the summer of 2026, I will develop this work as a visiting fellow at the Centre for Philosophy of AI Research at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.
  
• Conscience as a source of self-knowledge, including versions of this idea in the history of philosophy (Butler, Kant, Emerson, Dostoevsky). In the Spring of 2026, I will work on this as a fellow at Binghamton's Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. 
  
• Alignment and safety issues arising from the development of "personas" in Large Language Models. This work is being conducted with an interdisciplinary team as part of Binghamton's new Institute for AI & Society.
  

I received my BA in philosophy from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine and my PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. My supervisors were John McDowell and Kieran Setiya.