My research brings together ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and literature, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and cognitive science. Informed in part by three years of teaching and research in Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, it centers on questions of knowledge, cognition, interpretation, and prediction, especially the structures through which perception, inference, and judgment are organized. This interdisciplinary program is reflected in my publications across both humanities and philosophy-of-science venues, including Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences and Philosophy of Science.

At the core of this work is a concern with epistemic authority: how concepts, categories, and formal or figurative structures come to govern what counts as evidence, which relations become salient, and which inferences acquire the force of justification. Although I pursue these questions across ancient philosophical and literary traditions concerned with knowledge, nature, cognition, and prediction, they now converge most directly in my work on artificial intelligence. I examine how predictive systems inherit and formalize ways of seeing and classifying the world, how those classifications acquire authority through computational form, and how AI systems consequently reshape what can be recognized as evidence and knowledge.