Campus Directory

Division Humanities Division

Department/College/Unit Philosophy Department

Title Associate Professor
Associate Director, Center for Public Philosophy

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Legal Studies
Stevenson College

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

Areas of Expertise Philosophy
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Science
Autism

Primary Office Location Cowell College Faculty Office Addition
105A

Additional Location(s) Cowell Faculty Annex Room 105

Mail Stop Cowell Academic Services

Biography, Education and Training

PhD, Philosophy, University of Toronto

BA, Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Interests

Philosophy and history of psychology and psychiatry (especially autism), Wittgenstein, philosophy of mind, disability, neurodiversity, and ethical theory, Gestalt psychology

Selected Performances

"Borders" (February 2020), part of Futurefarmers; Fog Inquiry, Wandering Seminar series hosted by UCSC's Institute of the Arts and Sciences link to logbook

Selected Publications

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? Neurodiversity.  link

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. link

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). http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/5236/4475

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

Courses PHIL 11: Intro to Philosophy
PHIL 22: Intro to Ethical Theory
PHIL 80S: The Nature of Science
PHIL 124: Other Minds
PHIL 140: History of Ethics
PHIL 233: Aspect-Perception
PHIL 190: Philosophy and Psychiatry
PHIL 190: Wittgenstein
PHIL 203: Autism
PHIL 135: Philosophy of Psychology