I am a postdoctoral associate in the Centre for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh and I will join the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso as assistant professor in Fall 2025. I specialise in philosophy of neuroscience and cognitive science, philosophy of AI, and general philosophy of science. My research focuses on the relationships between mechanistic explanation, design explanation, functional analysis, and experimental design in neuroscience, psychology, AI, and biology. A recurring theme in my work is that objective norms are indispensable to scientific inquiry because they direct us to submi…
I am a postdoctoral associate in the Centre for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh and I will join the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso as assistant professor in Fall 2025. I specialise in philosophy of neuroscience and cognitive science, philosophy of AI, and general philosophy of science. My research focuses on the relationships between mechanistic explanation, design explanation, functional analysis, and experimental design in neuroscience, psychology, AI, and biology. A recurring theme in my work is that objective norms are indispensable to scientific inquiry because they direct us to submit things with different kinds of normative status (e.g., correct vs. incorrect) to different kinds of explanation.
