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In my research, I mostly do history and philosophy of science and medicine, philosophy of mind, and some relevant ethics. I will soon be training as a therapist alongside my research.

I have a book, forthcoming with Oxford University Press, After Mind, which will talk about the history and philosophy of the concept of mind across philosophy, science, medicine, and law. I also have a substack, here. Many of my journal articles are open access, and those that are not, I can normally help people to access if they email.

I am currently finishing a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Oxford, where for three years I will be looking at legal and medical assessments of decision-making capacity, how they misfire for the neurodivergent and cognitively disabled, and how this should inform philosophical accounts of agency and autonomy. My aim is to contest common philosophical presuppositions about the nature of agency and decision-making which have come to cloud practical determinations of capacity that adversely impact the treatment of some of the most vulnerable members of society.

In 2022, I finished my PhD at the University of Sussex, supervised by Professors Andy Clark and Sarah Sawyer, and funded by CHASE. In my thesis, I primarily considered the questions of why we have the concepts mind and mental, what they refer to, and whether or not we should keep them. I argue that using them does more harm than good, and that we should abandon them, in favour of more fine-grained concepts better suited to the phenomena under discussion.