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I am an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska, Omaha and a member of the Neuroscience Program and Medical Humanities Faculty. My research interests lie in the philosophy of neuroscience/cognitive science, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind. I study in the nature of functional localization (and of neural functions) in the human brain, the relationship between mental kinds and brain structures, known  in philosophy as the debate about the debate about "cognitive ontology," and the nature of concepts as mental representations.

I have broad teaching interests in the philosophy of neuroscience/cognitive science, moral psychology, philosophy of the biomedical sciences (bioethics, neuroethics, philosophy of psychiatry, etc.), philosophy of biology, and ethics. Prior to joining the University of Nebraska, Omaha  I was a postdoctoral fellow in Washington University in St. Louis' Department of Philosophy and Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program. I completed my Ph.D. in  the University of Pittsburgh's Department of History and Philosophy of Science in 2016.