ABOUT ME

I graduated from the department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh in 2005. Since August 2005, I have been a member of the Philosophy Department at Georgia State University. I work primarily in philosophy of mind.  I am also an associate member of the newly formed Neuroscience Institute. My current research focuses on three main areas:

• Emotions: What are emotions? How have theories of emotions changed through time? Are emotions natural kinds? Is core affect a natural kind? What are the advantages and shortcomings of competing theories of emotions?

• Information: What is information? Can information be the yeast and flour we need to bake the mental cake? Should information be understood probabilistically or in terms of laws and counterfactuals? How can we move from a theory of information to a theory of mental content?

• Philosophical methodology: How do we answer questions of the form "What is X?". Is there more than one one to get the answer right? How are scientific and philosophical answers constrained by our ordinary understanding of X? How are science and philosophy related?