- I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at University of Pittsburgh.
- In September 2013, I will be starting a position as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Daemen College in Buffalo, New York.
- Prior to coming to Pittsburgh, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Novel Tech Ethics at Dalhousie University, Canada, working within the project entitled “States of Mind: Emerging Issues in Neuroethics.”
- I received my PhD in 2010 at the Department of Philosophy at York University, Canada with the dissertation, “Mad Narratives: Exploring Self-Constitutions Through the Diagnostic Looking Glass.”
- My research in philosophy of psychiatry is situated at the intersection of general philosophy of science, philosophy of mind/ cognitive science and ethics. Empirical research on psychopathology and first person narratives of mental disorder are central to my work.
- Where I (sometimes) blog.
I am on the Executive Council of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry.
I edit the following PhilPapers categories:
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Note: The subtitle of this website is inspired by the following quote from Janet Frame‘s autobiography:
From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of facts and truths and memories of truths and its direction always toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth. (Frame 2008/1982, 3)