Recent and Upcoming Presentations
''Bodily sensation objects'', Colloquium talk, Philosophy Department, National University of Singapore, January 2012.
''Bodily sensation objects'', The Shalem Center, Jerusalem, Conference on Psycho-Ontology, December 2011.
''Do bodily sensations exist?'', University of Hertfordshire, Phenomenal Qualities Project, Conference on the Metaphysics and Ontology of Phenomenal Qualities, September 2011.
''Is naive introspection really unreliable?'', Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Kyoto, June 2011.
About Me
I'm currently a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Philosophy, Jawaharlal Nehru University. I'm also a Fellow in Philosophy at Harvard University's Department of Philosophy. My interests span the philosophy of mind, language, epistemology, metaphysics and the history of philosophy. I'm particularly interested in the philosophy of perception.
I'm currently giving a series of lectures on the philosophy of perception at the Centre for Philosophy. More information is available on the course website.
I wrote my dissertation on bodily sensations. I addressed the following questions:
- What is the nature of bodily sensations?
- Where are bodily sensations actually located?
- Must all bodily sensations feel to be located on the body?
I had a Martin Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2010-2011. Thanks to an MBB Graduate Student Award I spent the academic year 2006-2007 and Spring 2008 visiting the Visual Cognition Lab and the Vision Lab at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. While at Harvard, I was a member of the Philosophical Psychology Lab.