I am a Lecturer in Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy and Merton College, University of Oxford. Previously, I had a similar position at St Anne's College, Oxford, and before that I worked as a University Teacher and a Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. My PhD is also from the University of Glasgow.
Articles
| "Causal Emergence and Epiphenomenal Emergence", Erkenntnis, forthcoming. |
| "Why Incompatibilism about Mental Causation is Incompatible with Non-reductive Physicalism" (With Jonas Christensen), Inquiry, forthcoming. |
| "Mad Qualia", The Philosophical Quarterly, 2019. |
| "Quidditism and Contingent Laws", Thought, 2019. |
| “Emergence, Function, and Realization”, in S.C. Gibb. et. al. (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Emergence, Routledge, 2019. |
| "Epiphenomenal Properties”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2018. |
| “Must Strong Emergence Collapse?” (With Jessica Wilson), Philosophica, 2017. |
| “Lawful Mimickers”, Analysis, 2017. |
| “An Argument for Power Inheritance”, The Philosophical Quarterly, 2016. |
| “Realization Relations in Metaphysics”, Minds and Machines, 2015. |
Reviews
| Mental Causation: A Counterfactual Theory, by Thomas Kroedel. In Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2020. |
| The Multiple Realization Book by Thomas Polger and Larry Shapiro. In Analysis, 2017. |
| Qualia and Mental Causation in a Physical World: Themes from the Philosophy of Jaegwon Kim, edited by Terence Horgan, Marcelo Sabates, and David Sosa. In The Philosophical Quarterly, 2015. |
| Mental Causation and Ontology, edited by S. C. Gibb, E. J. Lowe, and R. D. Ingthorsson. In Mind, 2014. |
I specialise in philosophy of mind and metaphysics. Some of the questions that keep me busy are: What is an epiphenomenal property? Are mental and other higher-level properties epiphenomenal? What is it for a property to be multiply realized by other properties? How should we understand emergence? Are higher-level properties multiply realized? Are they emergent? What is the relationship between properties, causal powers, and laws of nature?
In Oxford, I teach lectures for the Faculty of Philosophy (including: graduate classes on Emergence; undergraduate lectures in Philosophy of Mind and Practical Ethics), teach tutorials in Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Knowledge & Reality (Epistemology & Metaphysics), Practical Ethics, General Philosophy (1st year introduction), Moral Philosophy at St Anne's College (2017-2019) and Merton College (2019 onward), and offer graduate supervision primarily in Philosophy of Mind and Metaphysics.
