Research

Publications

• (2025) Functions of consciousness in emotional processing. Consciousness and Cognition, 127, 103801. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2024.103801
• (2024) Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) and the Functions of Consciousness. Cognitive Science. Volume 48, Issue 5. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13453
• (2023) The Functions of Consciousness in Visual Processing. Neuroscience of Consciousness. Volume 2023, Issue 1. https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niac018
• (2022) The Functional Contributions of Consciousness. Consciousness and Cognition, Volume 104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2022.103383
• (2021) The First-Person Perspective is Not a Defining Feature of Consciousness. Dialogue, Special Issue: Canadian Philosophical Association 2021 Prize Winning Papers, 60(3), 435-446. 10.1017/S0012217321000196
• (2020) Social-eyes: Rich Perceptual Contents and Systemic Oppression. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 11(4): 939-954. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-020-00488-4
• (2020) Blockparty: Review of “Blockheads!: Essays on Ned Block’s Philosophy of Mind and Consciousness. Eds. Adam Pautz and Daniel Stoljar, MIT Press”, Metascience 29, 155–157. 10.1007/s11016-019-00479-x

Under Review

• Against the Search for a General Theory of Consciousness (Mind and Language)

Conferences and Presentations

• “Systems of Emotional Co-Dysregulation”, Ontario Mind Group (2025)
• “The Functional Contributions of Consciousness (FCCs): Markers, Theories, and the Pluralist Approach”, NYU’s The Functions of Consciousness Conference (2025)
• “Against the Search for a Theory of Consciousness”, David Chalmers’ NYU Philosophy of Mind Discussion Group (2024)
• “Functions of Consciousness in Emotional Processing” poster presentation at the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness Conference, June 2023
• “The Functional Contributions of Consciousness” poster presentation at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology Conference, June 2021
• “The First-Person Perspective is not a Defining feature of Consciousness” at the Canadian Philosophical Association Conference June 2021 (Congress Graduate Merit Award recipient), and at the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness Conference, June 2021
• “Social-Eyes: Rich Perceptual Contents and Systemic Oppression” at the American Philosophical Association Eastern and Central Division Conference, January and February 2021
• “Oppressive Assumptions and Rich Perceptual Contents” at the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, September 2019
• “The Psychological Mechanisms of Implicit Bias” at the Canadian Philosophical Association Conference, June 2018, and at the Western Canadian Philosophical Association Conference, October 2018
• “Content That Matters: In Defense of a Representational Theory of Emotion”, at the Western Canadian Philosophical Association Conference, October 2017
• “The Mind and the Natural World” at the Philosophy Café Series, February 2015
• “It Takes Two: Consciousness as a Relation” at the Philosophy Café Series, March 2012
• “Mental Causation: What Can Neuroscience Tell Us?” at the Philosophy Café Series, March 2011
• “Consciousness and Causality: An Argument Against Epiphenomenalism”, Graduate Students Symposium in Philosophy, University of Regina, April 2010