I am interested in the nature of psychological explanation, in both science and everyday life, and the relation between the two. My recent work has focused on computational models of our cognitive capacities. See my monograph Deflating Mental Representation (MIT Press, 2025) for my take on the role of representation in cognitive neuroscience and in our commonsense explanatory practices. I also have research interests in perception in general, and the theory of vision in particular, including the history of the study of vision.
I have a Ph.D. in philosophy of science from the University of Western Ontario in Canada. I have held research fellowships at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at the University of Bielefeld in Germany, the Institute for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and the Center for Mind and Cognition at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. In 2021 I was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize by the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). I retired from teaching at Rutgers University in 2023.