Before joining CUHK’s Department of Philosophy at the beginning of 2022, I was a lecturer at Jilin University, in Changchun, China (2018 – 2021). I received a BA in philosophy and English literature from Duke University in 2006, an MA in Humanities from the University of Chicago in 2008, and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Virginia in 2018 (dissertation supervisor: Trenton Merricks).
My research involves metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, and ethics. I’m especially interested in where these areas of inquiry come together. For instance, in the recent past, I’ve explored the nature of mental representation and its connection to first-personal knowledge, to the nature of proper reasoning, and to a variety of ontological issues. As part of this project, I published a book, through Palgrave MacMillan, called “Representational Content and the Objects of Thought”.
My recent, current, and upcoming work has to do primarily with the relationship between, on the one hand, how we persist (personal persistence) and, on the other hand, (1) various normative issues, (2) issues regarding what sorts of things we are, and (3) the nature of time.
