I am a PhD candidate in the Philosophy Department at Yale University. I am interested in the mind’s relationship to the world, the mind’s relationship to itself, how these subjects intertwine. I work on questions in this area in early modern philosophy, especially in the philosophy of René Descartes, his influences, and his followers. My research on Descartes focuses on his accounts of truth and the possibility of error, the need for certainty in philosophy, and the structure and transparency of mental content. I am also interested in theories of truth, judgment and the proposition in Late Scholastic philosophers (such as Francisco Suarez), C…
I am a PhD candidate in the Philosophy Department at Yale University. I am interested in the mind’s relationship to the world, the mind’s relationship to itself, how these subjects intertwine. I work on questions in this area in early modern philosophy, especially in the philosophy of René Descartes, his influences, and his followers. My research on Descartes focuses on his accounts of truth and the possibility of error, the need for certainty in philosophy, and the structure and transparency of mental content. I am also interested in theories of truth, judgment and the proposition in Late Scholastic philosophers (such as Francisco Suarez), Cartesian logicians (such as Antoine Arnauld), and other rationalists (such as Spinoza and Leibniz). In my less historical moments, I explore related topics in contemporary philosophy of mind (especially perception).
