Curriculum Vitae

Education

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

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

1. "How Speculative is Biopsychism Really?", Society for Philosophy and Psychology. June 20, 2025
2. "How Speculative is Biopsychism Really?", Workshop on The Edge of Sentience, Ruhr University Bochum. June 12, 2025
3. "Making Sense of Agency", International Conference for Artificial Life. July 24, 2024 
4. "Making Sense of Agency", Dimensions of Radical Embodiment, University of Murcia. June 21, 2024 
5. "Making Sense of Agency", On Purpose, Duke University. May 6, 2024
6. "Making Sense of Agency", Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. March 23, 2024
7. "Radicalism Twice Over: Radical Structuralism, Radical Embodiment, and Subjectivity", Berlin Workshop on Ecological Psychology, Technical University of Berlin. June 9, 2023
8. "Feeling it Out: Affectivity as Minimal Rationality", Emotions, Reasons, and Rational Agency, University of Tennessee. March 18, 2023 
9. "Taking Biology Seriously: An Enactive Solution to the Problem of Conscious Experience", University of Toronto Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, University of Toronto. April 9, 2019 

1. Comments on Tanya Dushatska, "Artificial Intelligence, Phenomenal Consciousness, and Creative Agency", Canadian Philosophical Association. June 4, 2025

Teaching Experience

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

Research Assistantships

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

Graduate Coursework

• 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)

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