I am a senior lecturer at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. My main areas of interest are philosophy of biology, philosophy of psychology (from psychoanalysis to evolutionary psychology), and the history and philosophy of race.
My current work is on philosophy of race. I am interested in the following questions. What is race? Is race biologically real, socially real, or not real at all? If there are no races, what are there? What is the relationship between race, racism, ethnicity and ethnocentrism? Can philosophy of language help us to define these terms? What role can the history of the race concept play in answering these questi…
I am a senior lecturer at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. My main areas of interest are philosophy of biology, philosophy of psychology (from psychoanalysis to evolutionary psychology), and the history and philosophy of race.
My current work is on philosophy of race. I am interested in the following questions. What is race? Is race biologically real, socially real, or not real at all? If there are no races, what are there? What is the relationship between race, racism, ethnicity and ethnocentrism? Can philosophy of language help us to define these terms? What role can the history of the race concept play in answering these questions?
I also have an ongoing interest in the relationship between proximate and evolutionary forms of explanation. I am especially interested in conflations and confusions surrounding 'how' and 'why' explanations, and how they play out in work at the intersection of biology and psychology.