NYU Center for Bioethics
Before that, I studied Biotechnology at Columbia, and Philosophy and Biology at Boston University.
Can Artificial Intelligence Make High-Stakes Decisions? 2025.
Critical consideration of whether artificial intelligence technologies should be used in high stakes contexts e.g. medicine, law, and government, to make decisions that affect the the lives and welfare of individuals.
On Moral Aggregation 2025.
Explores the validity of the presupposition that well-being can and should be summed as a step in moral deliberation and practical decison making, as is common practice in pubic health and population sciences, and whether such aggregates capture aspects of reality.
Gradualism, Moral Status, and Embryonic Ethics 2025.
Develops a theory of moral status grounded in neural development to produce action guiding principles for actions affecting embryos and fetuses enabled by contemporary reproductive technologies.
Future Worlds 2025.
Engages with the Non-Identity Problem to sketch a possible worlds-based strategy for reasoning about ethical decision making in contexts where present actions will affect individuals who don’t yet exist, but will.
Modal Distance and the Mind Body Problem 2025.
Exegetical analysis of Kripke’s denial of the necessity mind-brain identity in Naming and Necessity contextualized with contemporary neuroscientific knowledge and contemporary philosophical positions.
Value, Choice, and Experimental Trolleys 2025.
Experimental paper critiquing approaches to decision making research in contemporary cognitive science with a proposal for experiments to investigate the role of value in moral decision making.
On Genetic Enhancement. 2025. Self-published.
Exploration of the meaning of human enhancement and arguments for and against it, endorsing a conservative view on the elective, non-medical use of genetic technologies.
On Representation. 2025. Self-published.
A resistance of representationalism in philosophy of mind and cognitive science grounded in phenomenological concerns that highlight the importance of embodiment in consciousness.
Science and Necessity: Epistemic Revision Under Modal Pressure. 2025. Self-published.
An exigetical analysis of Kripke’s theory of names and natural kinds used as a bedrock for understanding the semantics of knowledge expansion and revision in Kuhnian scientific revolutions.
Information and Method: Logic for Translational Science. Thesis. Advised by Stuart Firestein. 2018. Self-published.
Frames a theory of biomedical information, develops a system of predicate logic for genomics, and applies the method to complexities in treating glioblastoma multiforme.
Science, Not Stigma: Perspectives on Blood Donor Controversy. Supervised Research. With Whitney MacDonald and FCB Health. 2018. Self-published.
Bioethical analysis of systematic discrimination in the U.S. blood donation scheme, including public comment submission to FDA and biotechnological solutions for HIV testing that eliminate ungrounded bias against male donors’ sexual orientation.
Epistemic Pluralism. 2018. Self-published.
Raising of Kuhnian concerns about scientific observaton, quelled with a theory accomodating a plurality of routes to truth and knowledge ins cience and an endorsement of multidisciplinarity in scientific thought and analysis.
More Than Meets the Eye: Object Perception and Perceptual Presence. 2017. Self-published.
Investigation of Merleau-Ponty’s surprising claim that objects can see each other through the phenomenology of presence and the perception of physical objects.
Genomics and Privacy. 2016. Self-published.
Examines the ethics of open source genomic data and implications for the safety of patient and consumer identity in relation to genomic data.
Human Nature, Engineering, and Identity. 2016. Self-published.
Considers the meaning of human nature and identity in the context of the possibilities proposed, realized, and promised by bioengineering.
Biology, Phenomenology and Identity: Building Interdisciplinary Bridges. 2016. Self-published.
Renders of the concept of identity considering its essential biological and experiential aspects.
Navigating the Molecular Reduction of Human Nature. 2016. Self-published.
Analyzes the penchant to reduce human nature to its physical constituent parts motivated by a resistance to abstracting away from the richness of mental life and phenomenal consciousness.
Justified Conscientious Objection. 2015. Self-published.
Presentation and analysis of cases in which healthcare professionals may be justified in refusing to administer certain types of care or treatment.
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Personalized Medicine. 2015. Self-published.
Traces the history, etiology, treatment, and emerging research of ALS.
Bioequivalence and Biosimilar Drug Development. 2015. Self-published.
Exposition of the concepts underlying generic biologic drugs and intellectual property laws governing their patenting and development.
America Invents? Against First-to-File Patenting in the United States. 2015. Self-published.
Critical analysis of norms in the patent process and imbalances in intellectual property rights with a focus on biotechnology.
Evolution and Perception. 2012. Self-published.
Develops an information processing and fitness-centric view of perception in the context of evolving biological systems.
A Kantian Theory of Cognition. 2012. Self-published.
Exigesis of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason’s B Deduction as a foundational text for cognitive science and theorizing about mental function.
Absurdity and the Explanatory Gap. 2012. Self-published.
Articulates phenomenological and existential perspectives on science’s inability to determine causal links between the mind and brain
Adderall, Attention, and Ethics of Amphetamine Use. 2012. The Nerve at Boston University. Also Self-published.
Investigation of attention-modulating drugs for medical and enhancement purposes and moral implications.
Phenomenal Quality and Humean Truth. 2011. Self-published.
A phenomenological analysis of Hume’s account of truth in his Enquiry, focusing on his explicit framing of particular kinds of phenomenal experience as essential to our perception of and relation to truth.