Profile

Career

2007 -	Lecturer in Philosophy	University of York
2004 - 2007	Supernumerary Teaching Fellow	St John's College, Oxford
2004	DPhil	Oxford
2000	BPhil	Oxford
1998	MA	Munich

Departmental roles

• Admissions Tutor for Undergraduates
• Sociology/Philosophy Joint Executive Committee member

Research

Overview

Research interests

Philosophy of Mind and Psychology; Ethics, Epistemology and Metaphysics.

Current projects

At present, I am thinking and writing about memory and the emotions. I have recently also started work on a new research project, tentatively entitled 'Mind and Will: The Metaphysics and Ethics of Mental Life', which explores how subjects take an active part in their own mental lives.

Publications

Selected publications

• 'Losing Oneself (In a Good Way): On the Value of Full Attention', forthcoming in European Journal of Philosophy
• 'Thinking about the Past and Experiencing the Past', in: Mind and Language (2013)
  
• 'Accounting for Epistemic Relevance: A New Problem for the Causal Theory of Memory', in: American Philosophical Quarterly 47:1 (2010), 17-29
• 'Experiencing the Past: A Relational Account of Recollective Memory', Dialectica 62 (2008), 405-432 DOI: 10.1111/j.1746-8361.2008.01165.x
• 'Perspectives on the Past: A Study of the Spatial Perspectival Characteristics of Recollective Memories', Mind and Language 22 (2007), 173-206.
• 'Being Emotional About the Past: On the Nature and Role of Past-Directed Emotions', Nous 41 (2007), 758-779.

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Philosophy of Mind
• Free Will and Moral Responsibility
• Knowledge and Perception

Postgraduate

• Epistemology and Metaphysics
• MA Project on 'Emotions and Their Objects'
• MA thesis supervision
• PhD thesis supervision