I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) at the Department of Philosophy and Classics.
My work is in philosophy of science/medicine, philosophy of mind/cognitive science, and bioethics.
Currently I am working on a manuscript, Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for a Humanist Science (under contract with Routledge), in which I make a case for including the self as an explicit target of research in scientific psychiatry in order to develop humanistic care practices in the clinic and beyond; especially those that help those with mental disorders flourish. Empirical research on psychopathology and first person narratives are central to this work.
My recent co-edited book (2019), The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Psychiatry, with Robyn Bluhm –a book intended to also serve as a textbook in philosophy of psychiatry– was recently published by the Bloomsbury Academic Press. You can find a review of it here.
Another co-edited book, Extraordinary Science and Psychiatry: Responses to the Crisis in Mental Health Research, with Jeffrey Poland, with the MIT Press (2017). Some reviews can be found here and here.
I enjoy writing for a public audience. Check out my reflections on COVID-19 here: Health Disparities in COVID-19 Triage Protocols, and here: Tele-psychiatry Ethics and the COVID-19 Pandemic. Another piece on the self that was published in Aeon Magazine can be read here.
My work on the ethics of using AI to treat mental disorders was recently covered by the MIT Technology Review, here, and also here.
More on my life and research can be found in a recent SCI PHI-Philosophy of Science Podcast interview here, and here on PSAGACITY: new media for new ideas in the philosophy of psychiatry. Follow me on twitter.
My work is in philosophy of science/medicine, philosophy of mind/cognitive science, and bioethics.
Currently I am working on a manuscript, Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for a Humanist Science (under contract with Routledge), in which I make a case for including the self as an explicit target of research in scientific psychiatry in order to develop humanistic care practices in the clinic and beyond; especially those that help those with mental disorders flourish. Empirical research on psychopathology and first person narratives are central to this work.
My recent co-edited book (2019), The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Psychiatry, with Robyn Bluhm –a book intended to also serve as a textbook in philosophy of psychiatry– was recently published by the Bloomsbury Academic Press. You can find a review of it here.
Another co-edited book, Extraordinary Science and Psychiatry: Responses to the Crisis in Mental Health Research, with Jeffrey Poland, with the MIT Press (2017). Some reviews can be found here and here.
I enjoy writing for a public audience. Check out my reflections on COVID-19 here: Health Disparities in COVID-19 Triage Protocols, and here: Tele-psychiatry Ethics and the COVID-19 Pandemic. Another piece on the self that was published in Aeon Magazine can be read here.
My work on the ethics of using AI to treat mental disorders was recently covered by the MIT Technology Review, here, and also here.
More on my life and research can be found in a recent SCI PHI-Philosophy of Science Podcast interview here, and here on PSAGACITY: new media for new ideas in the philosophy of psychiatry. Follow me on twitter.
Note: The subtitle of this website is inspired by the following quote from Janet Frame's autobiography.
From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of facts and truths and memories of truths and its direction always toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.
(Frame 2008/1982, 3)
