I came here from the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, where I studied philosophy and computer science. I am primarily interested in the philosophy of mind, science, quantum mechanics & the philosophy of language.

My thesis concerns how we should understand the relationship between the world as described by fundamental microphysics and the world as described by higher-level (non-fundamental) sciences.
For this project I am researching quantum mechanics, primarily for two reasons. Firstly, in order to gain a clear view of the first of those relata (the fundamental), I am looking at how an understanding of peculiarly quantum mechanical phenomena such as entanglement, can shed light on pluralist / monist debates about the general character of fundamental reality. Secondly, in order to gain an understanding of how the macro-world relates to the quantum mechanical world, I am studying decoherence theory, and the role it plays, particularly in Everettian interpretations of quantum mechanics, in explaining how many (macro-) worlds emerge.

I am also working on a couple of side projects. Firstly, I am very interested in the (hard!) problem of consciousness and the dualism / physicalism debate. And I am interested in connections between this problem and the measurement problem in quantum mechanics. At the moment I am specifically looking at the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics, how it solves the measurement problem, the problem of probability it gives rise to (as a trade-off for solving the measurement problem), and whether consciousness is to play a role in order to solve that problem, as various philosophers have argued.
A second side-project I am working on, which is an extension of research done while at Otago, concerns the theory of meaning and how it can ground analyticity, and of the relations between the concepts of analyticity, apriority and necessity (e.g. the extent to which they are co-extensive).