I specialize in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and literature, with particular interests in knowledge, cognition, interpretation, prediction, and the history of ideas. My research brings ancient philosophy into conversation with philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and artificial intelligence to examine how interpretive, inferential, and representational systems shape what can be perceived, judged, and known.

Across my work, I am especially interested in how concepts and formal or figurative structures acquire epistemic authority: how they organize salience and inference, become embedded in practices of measurement and classification, and shape the terms through which evidence is produced. My current research extends these questions from ancient practices of prediction, measurement, and interpretation to contemporary AI, asking what happens when historically formed relations become operational within computational systems and acquire renewed authority through their successful use.

My teaching and research have also drawn extensively on cognitive science, including three years in Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology. Across ancient and contemporary contexts, I investigate a common philosophical problem: how systems of representation make worlds intelligible, and what becomes difficult to perceive or contest once their organizing terms come to appear natural or given.