Professorial Research Fellow
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I'm a Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Cape Town and a Professorial Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bristol. I'm also a member of the UCT Neuroscience Institute and the new AI Initiative. In my spare time, I serve on the Philosophy of Science Association's International Relations committee, the Holberg Prize committee, and as an Associate Editor of Theoretical Linguistics (I also like to do non-academic things for fun!).
My research interests lie broadly in philosophy of cognitive science with a special focus on theoretical linguistics and AI. I completed my PhD at the joint programme in Philosophy at the Universities of St Andrews and Stirling in the UK in 2016. There, I was a member of the Arché Research Centre. I was supervised by Ephraim Glick (formerly MIT and St Andrews) and Josh Dever (UT Austin), and my examiners were Zoltán Szabó (Yale) and Patrick Greenough (St Andrews). Prior to that, I completed an MSc in logic and linguistics at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam, and a Masters in Philosophy at the University of Cape Town, during which I completed courses and was co-supervised at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I previously worked at the University of the Western Cape as a lecturer and research fellow. I have also conducted research at MIT, Pittsburgh, Yale, Edinburgh, Leeds, Minnesota Twin-Cities, UT Austin, Pompeu Fabra, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. |
Professor of Philosophy
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