I am an assistant professor of philosophy at Purdue University.
I write about epistemology, ethics, the philosophy of cognitive science, and the (analytic) philosophy of technology.
I was a postdoc at Stanford and at Pitt HPS. My PhD is from Princeton. My CV is here.
On folk-psychological innovation (with Evan Westra). Philosophers' Imprint, forthcoming. [pdf]
AI empiricism: the only game in town? In The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Science: Methodological and Epistemological Studies, forthcoming. [pdf]
Practical capacities, empathy, and human-centered artificial intelligence. In Empathy and Artificial Intelligence: Challenges, Advances, and Ethical Considerations, 2026. [pdf]
No right to an explanation (with Henrik Kugelberg). Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2025. [pdf]
On non-ideal individual epistemology. International Journal of Philosophical Studies (special journal issue on Robin McKenna's Non-Ideal Epistemology), 2024. [pdf]
Authenticity in algorithm-aided decision-making. Synthese, 2024. [pdf]
Engineered wisdom for learning machines (with Colin Allen). Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 2024. [pdf]
Human achievement and artificial intelligence. Ethics and Information Technology, 2023. [pdf]
Quantum of wisdom (with Colin Allen). In Quantum Computing and AI: Social, Ethical, and Geo-Political Implications, 2022. [pdf]
The rational dynamics of implicit thought. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2022. [pdf]
Reasoning with heuristics. Ratio, 2021. [pdf]
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Damage to the medial prefrontal cortex impairs music-evoked autobiographical memories (with Amy Belfi and Dan Tranel). Psychomusicology, 2018. [pdf]
Neural correlates of recognition and naming of musical instruments (with Amy Belfi, Joel Bruss, Taylor Abel, and Dan Tranel). Neuropsychology, 2016. [pdf]
Music evokes vivid autobiographical memories (with Amy Belfi and Dan Tranel). Memory, 2016. [pdf]