I am an Assistant Professor at LMU München. I was previously a Junior Fellow at FU Berlin, as part of the Human Abilities research group, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Universität Leipzig, as part of the Humboldt Project on connections between analytic philosophy and German idealism.
Before moving to Germany, I lived and studied in the UK. I did a BA in Philosophy, Psychology and Physiology at the University of Oxford, and then an MPhil and PhD in Philosophy at UCL.
My primary research interests are in the philosophy of action. I’m especially interested in intentional action, which I understand as the exercise of control by the agent (agentive control). But I’m also interested in broader and narrower categories of action, and how these must fit together. My research divides into two strands. On the one hand, I explore what should and should not figure in a metaphysics of action. On the other hand, I explore the normative epistemological consequences of understanding ourselves and others as agents who exercise agentive control.
More broadly, I’m interested in how issues in philosophy of action intersect with topics in moral psychology, philosophy of mind, the cognitive sciences, social philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of language.
I’m keen to help improve practices in academic philosophy and support students and colleagues from groups that are under-represented in the field. I’m currently acting as a deputy women’s officer for the LMU Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Studies — for information on the roles of LMU’s women’s officers and related services, see here.
