I am an associate professor of philosophy at Yale-NUS College. At the highest level of abstraction, my ambition is to reduce everything to the physical. My two projects, in philosophy of mind and normative theory (especially epistemology), are applications of this ambition.

My main project is to offer a reductive theory of phenomenal character - roughly, "what it's like" to have an experience. I argue that phenomenal character consists of perceptible properties that, while typically external, essentially involve relations to the subject.

My side project is to offer a reductive theory of normativity, with emphasis on epistemic normativity. On my telic internalist view, any subject's having a foundational reason to φ is grounded primarily in her having a final personal aim of φ-ing. Roughly, whether this aim is conative or cognitive then determines whether the foundational reason is practical or epistemic.

In my spare time, I play modern board games, drink single-malt whisky, and dance salsa.