I’m a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy at the Applied Ethics Center at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. I work mostly on the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of AI. I combine empirically-informed philosophy, analysis of scientific research, and neo-Kantian ideas to explore continuities and discontinuities between animal and human mentality—whether behavioral, functional, psychological, physiological, or evolutionary. I use this approach to shed light on phenomena such as intentionality, mental representation, and agency. In recent publications, I have drawn on empirical studies of animal problem-solving to argue that certain forms of tool use require a limited kind of self-consciousness.

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