I am a philosopher specializing in moral psychology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of psychology. 

I am a Visiting Lecturer at Georgia State University.  I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at St. Norbert College.

In order to understand the nature of autonomy, I investigate emotion's role in various mental processes such as evaluation, mindreading, self-control, and imagination. My work has regularly challenged the traditional "reason versus passion" dichotomy by demonstrating that affect plays an underappreciated role in phenomena like feelings of mental effort (Synthese, 2019), feelings of a unified phenomenal and agential experience of the world (Philosophical Psychology, 2020), mindreading (Synthese, 2022), and self-control (Philosophical Psychology, 2025).

My current project extends these findings in developing a regulatory theory of mental processes. Many purportedly epistemic mental processes (i.e., processes that seem to provide information about oneself and the world) also serve emotion-regulatory roles in our mental economy. This dual function undermines their epistemic outputs and sheds light on the psychological processes behind compromised autonomy and oppressive interpersonal dynamics.