I'm a Postdoctoral Researcher in the FWF Cluster of Excellence Knowledge in Crisis at Central European University (CEU) in Vienna. 

My work explores how our social nature shapes how we think and act. I focus on our capacity for culture: the ability to acquire and transmit knowledge, skills, and values through imitation, teaching, and tradition. I study how this distinctive capacity bears on our cognition, motivation, and social interaction. My broader research interests include epistemology, rationality, and Latin American philosophy.

Before joining CEU in Vienna, I earned my PhD in Philosophy from Princeton University. My advisor was Philip Pettit.

Published Papers:

• Competent Rule-following. Philosophical Quarterly. forthcoming. [link]

• No Guarantee: Coherence, Rationality, and Fragmentation. Thought. forthcoming. [link] [blog post for NWP Substack]

• Taught Rules: Instruction and the Evolution of Norms. Philosophical Studies. 2024. [link]

• Coherence as Joint Satisfiability (w/ Sam Fullhart). Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 2024. [link]

 In Progress (email me for drafts):

• A paper on pointless social norms

• A paper on the function of blame

• A paper on knowledge-how and intentional action (w/ Matt Dougherty)

• A paper on the reception of Aristotle in 16th century Spanish America.

• A paper on Simon Rodríguez's philosophy of education (w/ Sergio Gallegos Ordorica)