Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D., Philosophy (in progress) (2023-Present)
University of TorontoPh.D. student in Philosophy (2022-2023)
York University
(Transferred to University of Toronto September 2023)M.A., History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (2021)University of Toronto B.A., Philosophy and Cognitive Science (2019)University of Toronto

Fellowships, Grants, and Awards

Social Science and Humanities Resarch Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship (2024-2028)Faculty of Arts and Science Top (FAST) Doctoral Fellowship (2023-2027)Vision: Science to Applications (VISTA) Doctoral Scholarship (2022-2023)Terry Buckland Award for Diversity and Equity in Education (2017)

Conference Presentations

Refereed

"How Speculative is Biopsychism Really?", Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
June 20, 2025
"How Speculative is Biopsychism Really?", Workshop on The Edge of Sentience, Ruhr University Bochum.
June 12, 2025
"Making Sense of Agency", International Conference for Artificial Life.
July 24, 2024
"Making Sense of Agency", Dimensions of Radical Embodiment, University of Murcia.
June 21, 2024
"Making Sense of Agency", On Purpose, Duke University.
May 6, 2024
"Making Sense of Agency", Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
March 23, 2024
"Radicalism Twice Over: Radical Structuralism, Radical Embodiment, and Subjectivity", Berlin Workshop on Ecological Psychology, Technical University of Berlin.
June 9, 2023
"Feeling it Out: Affectivity as Minimal Rationality", Emotions, Reasons, and Rational Agency, University of Tennessee.
March 18, 2023

Non-Refereed

"Would I still be sentient if I was a worm?", Ontario Mind Group.
October 20, 2025
"Taking Biology Seriously: An Enactive Solution to the Problem of Conscious Experience", University of Toronto Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, University of Toronto.
April 9, 2019

Invited Commentaries

Comments on Fermin Fulda, "Life and the Dialectics of Matter and Form: Organicism between Dialectical Materialism and Hylomorphism.” Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Lewontin, University of Toronto.
October 12, 2025
Comments on Tanya Dushatska, "Artificial Intelligence, Phenomenal Consciousness, and Creative Agency", Canadian Philosophical Association.
June 4, 2025

Teaching Experience

As Tutorial Leader

PHL240 | Persons, Minds and Bodies (Fall 2025)
University of Toronto, Department of Philosophy
PHL342 | Minds and Machines (Winter 2025)
University of Toronto, Department of Philosophy
PHL255 | Philosophy of Science (Fall 2024)
University of Toronto, Department of Philosophy
PHL342 | Minds and Machines (Winter 2024)
University of Toronto, Department of Philosophy
PHIL2100 | Introduction to Logic (Fall 2022)
York University, Department of Philosophy
HPS300 | The Limits of Machine Intelligence (Winter 2021)
University of Toronto, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
PHL342 | Minds and Machines (Fall 2020)
University of Toronto, Department of Philosophy
PHL101 | Introduction to Philosophical Problems (Fall-Winter 2018-9)
University of Toronto, Department of Philosophy

Research Assistantships

Research Assistant in Philosophy of Visual Perception to Jake Beck, York University (2022-2023)

Graduate Coursework

University of Toronto

Representational Content (Imogen Dickie) (Audited)
Biological and Artificial Intelligence (Jennifer Nagel) (Audited)
William James's Radical Empiricism (Bill Seager)
Aristotle's De Anima (Jessica Gelber)
Moral Obligations Under Conditions of Injustice (Sophia Moreau)
The Structure of Consciousness (Andrew Lee)
Early Modern Naturalisms - Spinoza and Hume (Donald Ainslie, Michael Rosenthal)
Philosophy of Clinical Epidemiology (Brian Feldman, Brian Baigrie)
Advanced Introduction to Philosophy of Science (Mike Miller)
Consciousness, Qualia, and Qualities (Bill Seager)
Introduction to History and Philosophy of Science (Brian Baigrie)
Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics (Mike Miller, Trever Teitel)
Theories of Consciousness (Bill Seager)
Teleology (Denis Walsh, Marleen Rosemond)
History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Mark Solovey)
Technology, Environment, and History (Rebecca Woods)

York University

Stimulus, Context, and Control in Perception (Kevin Lande) (Audited)
Perceptual Justification (Jake Beck, Kevin Lande)
Rationality (Kristin Andrews)

CUNY Graduate Center

Animal Consciousness and Society (Kristin Andrews) (Audited)

Updated December 2025

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