Welcome! I'm an AHRC funded PhD Student in the Philosophy Department at UCL (previously a visiting research student at UCL's Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience). In my PhD thesis - Visual Perception as a Means of Knowing - I offer a characterization of what it means to think of visual perception as a means of knowing, and offer an explanation of this in terms of the nature of visual perception and the nature of knowledge. I work mainly in metaphysics & epistemology, and the philosophy of mind, psychology & cognitive neuroscience. I have a strong interest in various areas of the history of philosophy, and the philosophies of language and science. My supervisors have been Professors Mark Eli Kalderon, Christopher Peacocke, and Paul Snowdon.

Publications

• Does Propositional Seeing entail Propositional Knowledge?, forthcoming in Theoria
• Object Seeing and Spatial Perception, forthcoming in Phenomenal Presence, edited by Fabian Dorsch & Fiona Macpherson, Oxford University Press.

Research

• Propositional Content and Propositional Seeing

An older paper:

• Testimony as a Generative Source of Knowledge

• Propositional Content and Propositional Seeing
  • MindGrad, December 2011, Warwick University
• Visual Perception as a Means of Knowing
  • Workshop on Philosophy of Perception, October 2011, Cardiff University
• Propositional Content and the Many Meanings of `See'
  • PLM Conference, September 2011, Stockholm University
• Contextualism and the Many Meanings of `See'
  • Meaning, Context, and Implicit Content, May/June 2011, Cerisy
• The Epistemic Significance of Non-Epistemic Seeing
  • Work in Progress Seminar, January 2011, University of Warwick
• The Epistemic Significance of Non-Epistemic Seeing
  • UCL Philosophy Graduate Conference, September 2010, UCL
• The Phenomenal Presence of Spatiality
  • Phenomenal Presence, June 2010, University of Fribourg
• Comments on James Stazicker's: ``If 'attention alters appearance', Do We Know What The World Is Really Like?''
  • London-Berkeley Conference, May 2010, Institute of Philosophy, University of London
• Visual Differentiation and Spatial Perception
  • MindGrad, December 2009, Warwick University
• Visual Differentiation and Spatial Perception
  • Graduate Conference, December 2009, Institute of Philosophy, University of London
• Peacocke on Awareness and Knowledge of Mental Action
  • Mental Actions Research Seminar, November 2009, UCL
• Reddy on Experiencing Attention
  • Philosophy of Psychology Research Seminar, November 2009, Heythrop College
• Is Simplicity of a Theory of Meaning an Alethic Virtue?
  • Graduate Conference on Meaning and Truth, October 2009, University of Amsterdam
• Simplicity and the Metaphysics of Meaning
  • CMM Graduate Conference on Metaphysics, September 2009, University of Leeds
• Incomplete Definite Descriptions and Indeterminacy
  • OpenMinds, July 2009, University of Manchester
• Testimony and Memory as Generative Sources of Knowledge
  • OpenMinds, June 2008, University of Manchester
• Testimony as a Generative Source of Knowledge
  • London-Berkeley Conference, May 2008, Institute of Philosophy, University of London

I have been the TA for second year undergraduate Greek philosophy at UCL. I am also an undergraduate tutorial assistant for undergraduates at UCL and Heythrop college. In tutorials I teach various things including: Descartes' Meditations, Hume on Causation, Plato's Meno, Plato on Deomcracy in the Republic, Parfit on Personal Identity. At Heythrop I tutor in Epistemology and History of Modern Philosophy. I'm also an online tutor for the Oxford University Dept. of Continuing Education.