Brian is a Research Fellow in Science & Ethics at the University of Oxford and a Resident Visiting Scholar at The Hastings Center Bioethics Research Institute in Garrison, NY. His work is cross-disciplinary, following training in philosophy, cognitive science, psychology, history and sociology of science and medicine, and ethics. His research has been covered in Nature, Popular Science, The Atlantic, New Scientist, and other major outlets, as well as cited in the President’s Commission on Bioethics in Gray Matters: Topics at the Intersection of Neuroscience, Ethics, and Society.
The recipient of both the Robert G. Crowder Prize in Psychology…
Brian is a Research Fellow in Science & Ethics at the University of Oxford and a Resident Visiting Scholar at The Hastings Center Bioethics Research Institute in Garrison, NY. His work is cross-disciplinary, following training in philosophy, cognitive science, psychology, history and sociology of science and medicine, and ethics. His research has been covered in Nature, Popular Science, The Atlantic, New Scientist, and other major outlets, as well as cited in the President’s Commission on Bioethics in Gray Matters: Topics at the Intersection of Neuroscience, Ethics, and Society.
The recipient of both the Robert G. Crowder Prize in Psychology and the Ledyard Cogswell Award for Citizenship from Yale University (where he was also elected President of the Yale Philosophy Society and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Philosophy Review), Brian conducted graduate research in psychological methods as a Henry Fellow of New College at the University of Oxford. While at Oxford, he completed additional coursework in the philosophy of science and philosophy of mind, which he went on to publish in peer-reviewed journals. He also conducted graduate research in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science, technology, and medicine as a Cambridge Trust Scholar and Rausing Award recipient at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy and psychology at Yale University, having been jointly admitted to both departments. His essays have been translated into Polish, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Hebrew.