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My main areas of research include Rationality, Cognitive Science, Logic, and Aesthetics. I am particularly interested in the intersection of all four. The work in my dissertation centered on creating a foundation for a logic of images. We use images in our everyday reasoning. We use diagrams to reason about complex sets of data and maps to help us navigate our world. Regrettably, mainstream logics and research programs about rational decision-making focus exclusively on the implication relations between sentences and are unable to model the work we do when we reason imagistically. Since it is apparent that imagistic beliefs play a substantial role in reasoning, this means that there is a significant gap in the research in these areas. The work in my dissertation aims to remedy that by presenting a foundation for a logic for images. A current project in this area centers on imagistic negation. Here I argue that the current orthodox view, that images cannot express a negation, is false.

My other main area of interest is pedagogy. I strive to be an impactful effective teacher by fostering spaces where students can critically reflect on their beliefs and reasons for those beliefs which can sometimes be incredibly hard to do. I am particularly interested in effective assessment structure with a particular emphasis on ensuring these assignments do not reproduce inequalities that are often experienced by people from diverse backgrounds. You can find one such assignment structure in “”. My current project focuses on how to create an assignment that forwards the critical reflection course objective.