My primary areas of research are in the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. I also have a substantial interest in the philosophy of psychiatry and a background in philosophy of perception.

Topics I have published on include the feeling of bodily ownership, the metaphysics of bodily pain, the nature of delusional belief, the risk of AI suffering and prospects for AI welfare, and the psychological mechanisms of psychedelic therapy.

Much of my current research is focused on the rational relationship between affective states such as moods and emotions and cognitive states such as beliefs.

Publications

Journal Articles

• “Rational Affective Transformation” (with Quinn Hiroshi Gibson). Forthcoming in Ergo.
• “Varieties of Moral Agency and Risks of Digital Dystopia” (with Brad Saad). Forthcoming in American Philosophical Quarterly.
• “Depersonalization and the Immediacy of Affect.” Synthese 207: 161, 2026. doi: 10.1007/s11229-026-05519-8
• “Cognitive Representation and AI Wellbeing.” Asian Journal of Philosophy 4(2): 105, 2025. doi: 10.1007/s44204-025-00335-2
• “AI Alignment vs. AI Ethical Treatment: Ten Challenges” (with Brad Saad). Analytic Philosophy 0: 1–19, 2025. doi: 10.1111/phib.12380
• “The Puzzle of Mood Rationality.” Noûs 59 (2): 349–371, 2025. doi: 10.1111/nous.12517
• “Digital Suffering: Why it’s a Problem and How to Prevent It” (with Brad Saad). Inquiry 68(7): 2110–2145, 2025. doi: 10.1080/0020174X.2022.2144442
• “Against the Pathology Argument for Self-Acquaintance.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 102(3): 641–657, 2024. doi: 10.1080/00048402.2024.2320841
• “Monothematic Delusions and the Limits of Rationality” (with Quinn Hiroshi Gibson). The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 4(3): 811–835, 2023. doi: 10.1086/714986
• “The Paradox of Pain.” The Philosophical Quarterly 71(4), 2021. doi: 10.1093/pq/pqaa084
• “The Feeling of Bodily Ownership.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 2 (2): 359–379, 2021. doi: 10.1111/phpr.12657

Book Chapters

• “Delusions and Rationality” (with Quinn Hiroshi Gibson). In The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Delusion, ed. Ema Sullivan-Bissett. London: Routledge, 2024.
• “Psychedelic Therapy as Transformative Experience.” In Transformation and the History of Philosophy, eds. G. Anthony Bruno and Justin Vlasits. New York: Routledge, 2023.