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Humanities Division
Philosophy Department
Associate Professor
Associate Director, Center for Public Philosophy
Faculty
Legal Studies
Stevenson College
Regular Faculty
Philosophy
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Science
Autism
Cowell College Faculty Office Addition
105A
Cowell Faculty Annex Room 105
Cowell Academic Services
PhD, Philosophy, University of Toronto
BA, Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles
Philosophy and history of psychology and psychiatry (especially autism), Wittgenstein, philosophy of mind, disability, neurodiversity, and ethical theory, Gestalt psychology
"Borders" (February 2020), part of Futurefarmers; Fog Inquiry, Wandering Seminar series hosted by UCSC's Institute of the Arts and Sciences link to logbook
"Fog Inquiry: Perception, Neurobiology & Habits" (January 2019), part of Futurefarmers: Fog Inquiry, Wandering Seminar series hosted by UCSC's Institute of the Arts and Sciences link to logbook
forthcoming. An Inclusive Developmental Science Requires Attention to Neurodiversity. (with Morton Gersnbacher and Nameera Akhtar.) Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
2026. Understanding Others in the Face of Indeterminacy: Insights from Mothers of Nonspeaking Autistic Children. (With invited commentaries.) Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology. link
2025. A Living Experiment in Concept Formation: Hacking on the Creation of a Language for Autistic Experience. The Monist. link
2024. Reflections on Genuine Empathy: A Reply to van Grunsven and Roeser's 'AAC Technology, Autism, and the Empathic Turn'. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective. link
2024. Can autie-biographies influence non-autistic readers' views of autism and autistic people? (with Nameera Akhtar.) Neurodiversity. link
2024. Autistic Space: Definition and History. (with Nameera Akhtar.) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Disability.
2024. Autistic Autobiography. (with Nameera Akhtar.) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Disability.
2022. Köhler, Wittgenstein, and the Live Bonds of Dynamical Reality. Philosophia Scientiae. link
2022. Integrating Autistic Perspectives into Autism Science: a role for autistic autobiographies (with Nameera Akhtar). Autism. link
2022. Embracing the In-Betweenness of Aspect-Perception's Evaluative and Normative Dimensions. Nordic Wittgenstein Review. link
2022. On Developing an Ear (blog post; adapted for voice and read by Nameera Akhtar). oxford public philosophy.
2022. Still infantilizing autism? An update and extension of Stevenson et al. (2011) (with Nameera Akhtar and Jennifer L. Frymiare). Autism in Adulthood. link
2021. Autistic autobiography and hermeneutical injustice. Metaphilosophy. link
2020. Experiencing social connection: a qualitative study of mothers of nonspeaking autistic children (with Vikram Jaswal, Christine Stephan, and Nameera Akhtar). PLOS One. link
2019. The value of giving autistic testimony a substantial role in the science of autism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. link
2019. Autism, Aspect-Perception, and Neurodiversity. Philosophical Psychology. link
2016. The Deficit View and Its Critics. Disability Studies Quarterly 36 (4).
2016. On social feedback loops and cascading effects in autism: A commentary on Warlaumont et al. (2014). (with Nameera Akhtar, Vikram Jaswal, and Christine Stephan). Psychological Science 27 (11): 1528-1530. link
2016. Philosophy of Psychology. (with Nico Orlandi). In McIntyre, L. and Rosenberg, A. (Eds.). Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science. Routledge, pp. 408-420
2016. Empathy, Like-mindedness, and Autism. In Risjord, M. (Ed.). Normativity and Naturalism in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. Routledge, pp. 113-134. link
2014. “Blind” to the Obvious: Wittgenstein and Köhler on the obvious and the hidden History of the Human Sciences 27 (4): 59-76. link
2013. Wittgenstein on the Place of the Concept ‘Noticing an Aspect’. In Philosophical Investigations 36(4): 320-339. doi for full text
2013. A critical examination of mindblindness as a metaphor for autism. In Child Development Perspectives 7(2): 110-114. (with Nameera Akhtar). doi for full text
PHIL 11: Intro to Philosophy
PHIL 22: Intro to Ethical Theory
PHIL 124: Other Minds
PHIL 135: Philosophy of Psychology
PHIL 140: History of Ethics
PHIL 190: Philosophy and Psychiatry
PHIL 190: Wittgenstein
PHIL 203: Autism
PHIL 233: Aspect-Perception and Gestalt Psychology
PHIL 235: Neurodiversity
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