The main focus of my research is to articulate the structure of experience across human and non-human forms of life and the varieties of sense-making about the world, others, and oneself. I integrate empirical findings and conceptual analysis within a broadly Kantian framework that treats experience as structured by conditions of intelligibility grounded in both biological and historico-cultural factors. More specifically, my work develops this framework across three interrelated areas:
(I) philosophy of mind and cognitive science, with special focus on perception, imagination, memory, and the formats of mental representations;
(II) the e…
The main focus of my research is to articulate the structure of experience across human and non-human forms of life and the varieties of sense-making about the world, others, and oneself. I integrate empirical findings and conceptual analysis within a broadly Kantian framework that treats experience as structured by conditions of intelligibility grounded in both biological and historico-cultural factors. More specifically, my work develops this framework across three interrelated areas:
(I) philosophy of mind and cognitive science, with special focus on perception, imagination, memory, and the formats of mental representations;
(II) the epistemology of understanding and rationality, including scientific, artistic, interpersonal, and alien (non-human) forms of understanding;
(III) the relation between aesthetics (especially everyday aesthetics), well-being, and processes of world-building.
