EDUCATION
Degrees:
University of Oxford (All Souls College)- DPhil in Philosophy
2019 - 2023
Thesis: The Totality of the Thinkable (on Kant and epistemology)
Supervised by Professors Adrian Moore and Anil Gomes
University of Oxford (All Souls College and Balliol College) - BPhil in Philosophy (Master’s degree)
2017 – 2019 | Distinction
Thesis: Kant’s Critical Theology
Supervised by Professors Ralph Walker and Adrian Moore
Stanford University - B.A., Major: Philosophy, Minor: Computer Science
Graduated 2015 | Distinction
Thesis: Human Foundations of Rational Knowledge (on Kant, Husserl, and philosophy of math)
Supervised by Professors Allen Wood and Lanier Anderson
Other academic affiliations:
Princeton University - Visiting Student Research Collaborator and Visiting Fellow at the Princeton Project in Philosophy & Religion (Fall 2022)
LMU Munich - Exchange Scholar (2016/2017)
University of Oxford (Balliol College) - Philosophical Theology program (2015/2016)
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics, 2020
Gilbert Ryle Prize, 2019
For best overall performance in BPhil in Philosophy at Oxford
Fellow (by Examination) at All Souls College, effective 2018
Seven years of full combined doctoral and post-doctoral funding
Balliol Maximilianeum Exchange Scholar at LMU Munich, 2016-2017
Full funding of tuition and room and board for one year
Rhodes Scholarship, 2015-2017
Marshall Scholarship, 2015 (declined)
David M. Kennedy thesis award, 2015
Awarded for best undergraduate Humanities thesis at Stanford
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND WRITTEN WORK
Academic philosophical publications:
“Kant’s Critical Theory of the Best Possible World”, Kantian Review (2020)
Argues that in the Critical Period Kant continues to endorse the view that God creates the best possible world; presents an interpretation of what Kant thinks it is for a world to be best-possible according to which best possible worlds are infinite in value
Selected writing for popular audiences:
"The Risk of the Universal", The Point (2024)
On Gillian Rose's Hegelian philosophy of mourning and nihilism
"An Enlightened Age", The Point (2024)
Dispatches from Kant's 300th birthday party in Berlin
"Dream House as Politics, Dream House as Art", The Oxonian Review (2020)
On hermeneutical injustice and Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House
PRESENTATIONS
Kant on the Principle of Complete Determination and Principle of Sufficient Reason
NAKS Biennial in Montreal, October 17-19, 2025 [upcoming]
Kant's Transcendental Dialectic workshop, June 7
Berlin Summer Colloquium in Philosophy, June 20-22, 2025
The Critical Fate of Kant's Possibility Proof
Workshop in Fribourg, July 2025 [upcoming]
New Work on the Critique of Pure Reason, University of Stuttgart, July 2-3
Alienated Autonomy
Chicago Talks on Agency, April 2026 [upcoming]
Rational Reference: Kant's Theology as Transcendental Philosophy
Pacific NAKS Study Group Meeting, March 2025
DC-Baltimore Kant and Post-Kantian Workgroup, UMBC, September 2024
Princeton Project in Philosophy & Religion, December 2022
Midwest North American Kant Society conference, Fall 2022 (Markus Herz prize nominee)
Divine Creation and the Moral Law
13th Action Network meeting in Leipzig, July 2024
Oxford Post-Kantian Philosophy Seminar, April 2024
Workshop at Université de Fribourg, February 2024
Grounding the Highest Good: The omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent God of Kant's moral argument
Notre Dame conference on Kant's Moral Vision as Affirmative Religion, Spring 2023
Kant Graduate Student Forum at Harvard, December 2022
Oxford/Princeton/Maison Française graduate conference, Summer 2021
Kant and Spinoza
Cambridge Loxbridge Kant workshop, Spring 2020
Idealised reasoners
Oxford Epistemology Group, Spring 2022
Oxford Philosophy of Mind Work-in Progress Group, Spring 2021
Kant's Critical Theory of the Best Possible World
Thirteenth International Kant Congress, Oslo, Summer 2019
Baumgarten and Kant on the divine mind
Workshop at Trinity College (Oxford), Fall 2021
Comments
On Patrick Kain's "The Development of Kant's Conception of Divine Freedom", Eastern APA meeting in Montreal, January 2023
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Conference and related organising:
Workshop co-organiser: A Day on Kant's Transcendental Dialectic
Co-organized with Christopher Benzenberg
July 7, 2025
Conference co-organiser: Anglo-Franco-American Graduate Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy
Co-organized with Mogens Læerke and Dmitri Levitin
Summer 2021
Workshop series co-organiser: The Loxbridge Kant Series
Co-organised with Christopher Benzenberg and Nicholas Currie
Fall 2019 — Spring 2020
Conference co-organiser: Pluralising Philosophy: Learning from the Case of Chinese Thought
Co-organised with Lea Cantor, Sihao Chew and Chong-Ming Lim
Spring 2019
Inclusion work:
All Souls College Women’s Open Evening and Black and Minority Ethnic Open Evenings
2019 – 2023
Mentor, People for Womxn in Philosophy (PWIP)/Oxford mentoring scheme
2019 – 2022
Equality and Diversity Representative - University of Oxford
2018 – 2019
TEACHING
Teaching experience:
Foucault (Fall 2024)
Fate of Autonomy (Winter 2025)
Philosophical Perspectives (Spring 2025)
Kant's Theology (Spring 2025)
Kant’s Aesthetics (Spring 2022)
Feminist Theory (Fall 2021)
Philosophy of Kant (Spring 2020)
Training and professional development:
Advanced Teaching and Learning Course (2021-2022)
Seminar on teaching and learning that leads to credential of Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, as part of the UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF). Credential received in Spring 2022