I am a Lecturer in philosophy at the University of Wollongong. I work on emotion and emotional dispositions, drawing especially on dynamical systems theory, life history theory, and predictive processing models of mind. My current research seeks to bring the question of how emotional dispositions develop into dialogue with the rapidly-developing approaches to machine learning coming to define 21st-century notions of both artificial and biological intelligence. I am interested in how norms and values may be embedded into decision-making processes undertaken by AI and data-driven technologies, and how human interaction with new technologies can impact our characters and regulate our attentional and emotional capacities.

As a teacher, I have the privilege of introducing first-year students to epistemology, the philosophy of language, and logic in ‘Wisdom, Truth, and Reason’, and to moral philosophy in ‘The Good Life and the Virtues’, where we focus on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. I previously worked for the Department of Premier and Cabinet as a policy advisor, and as a researcher at the Practical Justice Initiative at the University of New South Wales. You can contact me here.

Left: With my brilliant colleagues, Anthony Hooper, Talia Morag, and Bernardo Ainbinder (left to right).