Faculty
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- Philosophy Department
- Affiliations Legal Studies, Stevenson College
- Phone 831-459-5045
- Office Location
- Cowell College Faculty Office Addition, 105
- Cowell Faculty Annex Room 105
- Mail Stop Cowell Academic Services
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science
- Courses PHIL 11: Intro to Philosophy, PHIL 22: Intro to Ethical Theory, PHIL 80S: The Nature of Science, PHIL 124: Other Minds, PHIL 140: History of Ethics, PHIL 233: Aspect-Perception, PHIL 190: Philosophy and Psychiatry, PHIL 190: Wittgenstein, PHIL 203: Autism, PHIL 135: Philosophy of Psychology
Research Interests
Philosophy and history of psychology and psychiatry (especially autism), Wittgenstein, philosophy of mind, disability, neurodiversity, and ethical theory
Biography, Education and Training
PhD, Philosophy, University of Toronto
BA, Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles
Selected Publications
In press. The Role of Autistic Testimony in the Science of Autism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
2019. Autism, Aspect-Perception, and Neurodiversity. In Philosophical Psychology. penultimate draft
2016. The Deficit View and Its Critics. Disability Studies Quarterly 36 (4). http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/5236/4475
2016. On social feedback loops and cascading effects in autism: A commentary on Warlaumont et al. (2014). (with Nameera Akhtar, Vikram Jaswal, and Christine Stephan). In Psychological Science 27 (11): 1528-1530. pdf
2016. Philosophy of Psychology. (with Nico Orlandi). In McIntyre, L. and Rosenberg, A. (Eds.). Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science. Routledge, pp. 408-420
2016. Empathy, Like-mindedness, and Autism. In Risjord, M. (Ed.). Normativity and Naturalism in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. Routledge, pp. 113-134. pdf
2014. “Blind” to the Obvious: Wittgenstein and Köhler on the obvious and the hidden In History of the Human Sciences 27 (4): 59-76. doi for full text
2013. Wittgenstein on the Place of the Concept ‘Noticing an Aspect’. In Philosophical Investigations 36(4): 320-339. doi for full text
2013. (with Nameera Akhtar) A critical examination of mindblindness as a metaphor for autism. In Child Development Perspectives 7(2): 110-114. doi for full text
