Professor and Chair of Philosophy
Professor and Chair of Cognitive Science
Faculty Fellow of the Rice Center for Teaching
My general interests are in the philosophy of cognitive science, the nature of knowledge, and the mind/body problem. I specialize in naturalized epistemology, the history of skepticism, philosophy of mind, embodied cognition, animal cognition, artificial neural networks, and cognitive development. Recently I have written on ethics and artificial intelligence, and I am currently working on a project in cognitive science and memorial sculpture in former Yugoslavia.
Ph.D. University of Arizona in Philosophy and Cognitive Science, 1999.
BA Williams College in Philosophy, 1991.