CV
AOS: Kant, Philosophy of Race, Ethics
AOC: Early Modern Philosophy, Post-Kantian European Philosophy
Education
2024. University of Toronto
PhD
Thesis: Kant on Personhood
Committee: Nicholas Stang (chair), Sergio Tenenbaum, Owen Ware
2023. University of Groningen
Visiting PhD
Supervisor: Pauline Kleingeld
2013-2015. University of Edinburgh
MSc. Mind, Language, and Embodied Cognition, with Distinctions
Thesis: 'On Knowing It's Just for Fun: Extending the Minimal Theory of Mind to Social Play'
Supervisor: Suilin Lavelle
2009-2013. University of Toronto
B.A. with honours
Employment
Fall 2024 University of Toronto Scarborough,
Assistant Professor, teaching stream
Awards & Recognition
2023-2024 Doctoral Fellow, Center for Ethics
2022 Canadian Philosophical Association Graduate Merit Award
2019-2020. The Hain Ontario Graduate Scholarship.
2018-2021. Granovsky-Gluskin Graduate Scholarship
2017. Balzan Graduate Fellow
Publications
2022. 'The Gallows Alien: Extending the Concept 'Person' to Non-Human Organisms. Dialogue. 61(1): 431-450
Conference Presentations
"Exhibiting Personhood" Winter School of the Standing Group on Kantian Political Thought, European Consortium for Political Research, Dec. 10-12, 2024
"Who is a Person? On Applying the Pure Moral Concept 'Person' to Concrete Cases" North American Kant Society, Midwest Study Group, Marquette University. Nov. 1-2, 2024
"Kant's Passive Persons." Kant Congress, University of Bonn, Sep. 11 2024
"Kant's Aesthetics of Race." Ethics at Noon, Center for Ethics, University of Toronto, Jan. 24, 2024
"Kant and Race: Reassessing Kant's Moral Philosophy in Light of his Racism." Center for Ethics, University of Toronto, Sep. 27, 2024
"Extending the Concept Person to Non-Humans." Canadian Philosophical Association, Annual Meeting. Online. 2022
"Kant and a schematism for the concept <Person>." Continental Philosophy Group Talk. University of Toronto. 2020
"Motivations for positing the other in Fichte and Sartre." The Annual Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy Conference. Mount Royal University. 2018
"Shame, objectification, self-evaluation." The (In)Human Gaze. University of Dublin, Paris, France. 2018
"Can a minimal theory of mind help explain targeted behaviour in preverbal infants?" IV Research Workshop on Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences. University of Granada. 2014
"Against McDowell's heterodox reading of Hegel's dialectics of desire and recognition." Phil. Fest, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. 2014
Comments on Janette Dinishak's 'Autism, Aspect-perception, and Neurodiversity'. Graduate Research Conference. University of Toronto. 2018
Comments on James Tartagalia's 'Rorty's Ambivalent Relation with Kant'. Oxford-Keele- St. Andrew's Kant Fest.Keele University. 2014
Other Academic Positions
2019. Research Assistant to Owen Ware. Department of Philosophy. University of Toronto
2018. Research Assistant to Michael Morgan. Department of Philosophy. University of Toronto
2010-2013. Research Assistant to Lorne Tepperman. Department of Sociology, University of Toronto.
Academic Service
2024-2025. Philosophy Outreach, University of Toronto, Scarborough.
2024-2025. Faculty Liasion, Association of Philosophy Students, University of Toronto Scarbough
2024. Graduate Student Representative, Summer Institute for Underrepresented Undergraduate Students in Philosophy, Canadian Philosophical Association
2022. Judge, Ontario High School Ethics Bowl
2021. Conference Organizer. Schwartz-Reisman Graduate Student Conference in Jewish Studies. Theme: Resiliency, Humour and Hope: Jewsish Studies, Race and Racism
2020. Reviewer. Dialogical: Philosophy for Youth
2019. Tutorial Leader. UTM Summer Philosophy Workshop for high-school students. University of Toronto at Mississauga,
2014. Organizing committee. iCog: perspectives on learning conference. University of Edinburgh.