I'm an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami. I received my PhD from Princeton University in 2012, and have since been a Bersoff Fellow at NYU and a lecturer at the University of York.

My central philosophical interests involve exploring possible minds (including artificial minds) and neglected areas of logical space, and developing (for purposes of fair comparison) the most defensible possible versions of physicalism, epiphenomenalist dualism, and idealism.

My book, The View From Everywhere: Realist Idealism Without God (Oxford University Press, 2025) develops a novel quasi-Berkeleyan realist idealism, which does not rely upon God to do the metaphysical heavy lifting. This non-theistic idealism offers a fresh approach to the persistence and stability of the physical world. The resulting theory has implications for the nature of perception and the relationship between our minds and our bodies, and affords a uniquely optimistic account of our place within, and our ability to comprehend, reality.

My other research focuses on consciousness (its nature, contents, and how limited agents like us conceptualize it), and AI consciousness & intentionality (and its ethical implications). I have additional interests in metaethical naturalism/nonnaturalism (and its relation to physicalism/dualism in the philosophy of mind), mental imagery, introspection, and virtues of character.

My next book project, Berkeley Upside Down, brings together comparative neurobiology and Berkeleyan idealism to yield a novel argument for the possibility of radical metaphysical indeterminacy.