Current Students Directory

Research Interests

metaphysics, meta-epistemology, and philosophy of language: normativity, rule-following, necessity, meaning, nature of rationality

meta-ethics: freewill, personhood, equality

history of philosophy: early modern (Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant), contemporary (Carnap, Quine, D. Lewis, Sellars, Brandom, McDowell)

Biography, Education and Training

MA in philosophy, SFSU (2020)
BA in philosophy, UC Berkeley (2017)

Selected Publications

“In Defense of Kant’s Deduction of Pure Aesthetic Judgments,” American Society for Aesthetics Graduate E-Journal (2022)

 “On the Possibility of Empiricism: A Critique of McDowellian Conceptualism,” M.A. Thesis, SFSU (2020) *Revised Draft

Selected Presentations

“Perceptual Bias and Epistemic Blame,” Graduate Symposium, UC Santa Cruz (2024)

"Lanaguage and Personhood," Research Workshop, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (2024)

“Mere Verstand: The Kantian Story of the Possibility of Knowledge,” BSD Graduate Conference, UC Davis (2022)