I am an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). I am also affiliated with RIT's Cognitive Science PhD program and its Center for Cognitive Science and with the Center for Music, Brain, and Society at the University of Southern California (where I did my PhD). I work primarily in the philosophy of cognitive science/neuroscience. I also work in the philosophy of music.
 
My research in philosophy of cognitive science/neuroscience develops and applies an account of perceptual contents that is grounded in a fine-grained functional analysis of information-processing by the neural mechanisms involved in perception – with special attention to the operation of the peripheral sensory receptors – and the ways these support higher-level behavioral or cognitive functions. I apply this account to a number of topics in the philosophy of perception – particularly those related to spatial perception. I am also conducting research on mental imagery with an eye towards developing an account of representational formats for mental representations. This, in turn, connects to my work on the perception/language interface – e.g., how perceptual and linguistic representations of events interact and the extent to which they overlap.

My research in the philosophy of music connects to my prior work as a composer and musicologist (see here). I am currently working on a series of papers on the implications of composer John Cage's work for the ontology of experimental musical works and conceptual art and the proper basis for the evaluation of such works.
 
​Click here for a look at my CV (last updated 1 July 2026). Click here for my recent research.