I’m currently an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at San José State University.  I’m engaged in a major research project on the “Science and Ethics of Empathy,” which I use as a vehicle for pursuing my other wide-ranging interests in the philosophy of science, cognitive science of morality, and biomedical ethics.  I take a highly interdisciplinary approach in my research and teaching, often drawing on my background doing empirical research in cognitive science.
Before coming to SJSU, I was a McDonnell Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, a Teaching and Research Associate in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) at the University of Cambridge, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Klosterneuburg, Austria.
I completed my MPhil (2012) and PhD (2017) at HPS Cambridge. Tim Lewens supervised my PhD, which was generously funded through his ERC grant on the ‘Science of Human Nature.’