I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Medical Humanities 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. It is heavily informed by feminist and social epistemology.
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 co-edited book (2019), The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Psychiatry, with Robyn Bluhm, intended to serve as a textbook in philosophy of psychiatry, was 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, which adopts a Kuhnian approach to make sense of the existing research landscape in psychiatry, was published with the MIT Press (2017). Some reviews can be found here and here.
I enjoy doing public philosophy. 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. An interview with the San Antonio Express News on end of life care decisions can be read here.
A piece on the self published in Aeon Magazine can be found here.
My work on the ethics of using AI to treat mental disorders was covered by the MIT Technology Review, here, and also here. You can hear some of its main ideas on a podcast here, recorded by Sarah Audrey at Université du Québec à Montréal.
Some of my early work on the distinction between grief and depression was featured in a Wired article, here, in the context of understanding COVID-19 related mental distress.
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. It is heavily informed by feminist and social epistemology.
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 co-edited book (2019), The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Psychiatry, with Robyn Bluhm, intended to serve as a textbook in philosophy of psychiatry, was 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, which adopts a Kuhnian approach to make sense of the existing research landscape in psychiatry, was published with the MIT Press (2017). Some reviews can be found here and here.
I enjoy doing public philosophy. 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. An interview with the San Antonio Express News on end of life care decisions can be read here.
A piece on the self published in Aeon Magazine can be found here.
My work on the ethics of using AI to treat mental disorders was covered by the MIT Technology Review, here, and also here. You can hear some of its main ideas on a podcast here, recorded by Sarah Audrey at Université du Québec à Montréal.
Some of my early work on the distinction between grief and depression was featured in a Wired article, here, in the context of understanding COVID-19 related mental distress.
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)
