In Fall 2019, I will be an Assistant Professor in the philosophy department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. I am currently a Lecturer in philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Before that I was a postdoctoral researcher, and member of the ERC-funded IDEM project at the University of Bordeaux, working on the philosophy and biology of holobionts, symbiosis, microbiomes, and biological individuality. I received my Ph.D. in philosophy from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) in 2017. I received my Ph.D. in zoology and my M.A. in philosophy from The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 2012.
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In Fall 2019, I will be an Assistant Professor in the philosophy department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. I am currently a Lecturer in philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Before that I was a postdoctoral researcher, and member of the ERC-funded IDEM project at the University of Bordeaux, working on the philosophy and biology of holobionts, symbiosis, microbiomes, and biological individuality. I received my Ph.D. in philosophy from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) in 2017. I received my Ph.D. in zoology and my M.A. in philosophy from The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 2012.
I specialize in philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, and environmental ethics/philosophy. I work primarily on biological individuality and explanation and causal reasoning in biology. I am particularly interested in the problem of how to approach the complex and hierarchical nature of living systems when investigating biological phenomena and constructing explanations. I have ongoing projects on biological individuality, holobionts, robustness, causal explanation, speciation and lineage concepts, and biological organization. I also have side projects in the history of biology, on marine population connectivity, and on a Buddhist approach to the ontology of living systems.
