Graduate Student, Philosophy
Binghamton University, Philosophy
About
I am a PhD Student in Philosophy at Vanderbilt. I am interested in the relation between culture and perception, and in the prospects of a naturalism that includes culture as second nature. My main influences are Husserl’s and Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenologies and their heirs (reaching to the contemporary discussion at the intersection of phenomenology and the cognitive sciences) and a Wittgenstein-inspired focus on pragmatics.
My current project has two parts. On the one hand, I am working on an account of “perceptual practices.” On the other, I am interested in the discussion on the conceptual and non-conceptual content of perceptual experience. An epistemological discussion about naturalism operates, at the moment, as a sort of horizon in my work.
