Expertise

Descartes, Malebranche, Cavendish, Embodiment, Sensory Perception, Color

Biography

I work on topics in early modern philosophy, focusing especially on Descartes’s and Malebranche’s accounts of embodiment. Recently, I have also been working on Margaret Cavendish’s view of color.

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Selected Publications

• ‘Let us imagine that God has made a miniature earth and sky”: Malebranche on the Body-Relativity of Visual Size’,  Journal of the American Philosophical Association (forthcoming)
• 'Our Body Is the Measure: Malebranche on the Body-Relativity of Sensory Perception’, Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy IX (forthcoming)
• ‘Color in a Material World: Margaret Cavendish Against the Early Modern Mechanists’, The Philosophical Review 128(3) (2019): 293-336
• ‘The Body I Call “Mine”: A Sense of Bodily Ownership in Descartes’, European Journal of Philosophy 27(1) (2019): 3-24
• ‘Our Bodies, Our Selves: Malebranche on the Feelings of Embodiment’, Ergo 5(19) (2018): 507-539
• ‘A Bodily Sense of Self in Descartes and Malebranche’, in Subjectivity and Selfhood in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy, eds. Jari Kaukua and Tomas Ekenberg (2016): 219-234

Courses Taught

• Honors Special Topics in Philosophy
• Continental Rationalism
• History of Philosophy: Modern