Welcome

I am an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream at  the University of Toronto, Scarborough.

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I am particularly interested in intersubjectivity, our ability to distinguish persons from non-persons (e.g., non-human animals and mere objects), and the effect being with others has on one's awareness and self-consciousness. My work has primarily focused on these questions as they arise within Kant's philosophical system. Recently, my research has centered around two main question within Kant's work:

1.  how can the concept 'person,' an idea of practical reason, be applied to concrete objects which, as things given in experience, must be organized according to deterministic natural law?

2. What implications does Kant's systematic attempts to deny those capacities associated with moral personality to women and people of colour have for his moral and political philosophy?

I am also interested in German Idealism more widely, Continental Philosophy (especially Sartre), Philosophy of Race, and Social and Political Philosophy (especially Feminist and Africana philosophies).