Research Statement

My research examines how minded beings represent, understand, and navigate the world and just how particular and universal such representation is across human and non-human populations. This work spans philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of AI, and cross-cultural philosophy, with particular attention to intentionality, knowledge, language, and the ways cultural traditions shape human understanding. With this overarching focus, my research currently breaks into three broad categories: philosophical topics in AI and their practical importance; intentionality and core issues in philosophy of mind; and philosophical topics related to Madagascar.

You can review more detail in my Research Outline.

Research Articles

  1. “Preparing College Students for the Future of Work with AI,” with David Yancey, AI & Society, forthcoming

  2. “The Structure of Intentionality: Concepts, Intentional Objects, and the Reification Fallacy,” Australasian Philosophical Review, 8 (1): 84-88, 2024 (pdf)

  3. “The Malagasy Ideal of Fihavanana and Western Ethics,” Comparative Philosophy, 13 (2): 94-110, 2022 (pdf)

  4. “Adverbialism, the many-property problem, and inference: reply to Grzankowski,” Philosophical Explorations, 24 (3): 312-324, 2021 (pdf)

  5. “Content Externalism, Truth Conditions, and Truth Values,” Philosophia, 48 (2): 821-830, 2020 (pdf)

  6. "Siméon Rajaona on Western ways of thinking and the authentic Malagasy mind," with Graziella Masindrazana and Zoly Rakotoniera, South African Journal of Philosophy, 37 (3): 347-360, 2018 (pdf)

  7. "Knowledge Transmission and the Internalism-Externalism Debate about Content," Philosophia, 45(4): 1851-1861, 2017 (pdf)

  8. "Malagasy Time Conceptions," Comparative Philosophy, 8 (1): 63-81, 2017 (pdf)

  9. "Externalist Thought Experiments and Direction of Fit," Argumenta 3 (1): 139-156, 2016 (pdf)

  10. "The Indispensability and Irreducibility of Intentional Objects," The Journal of Philosophical Research 41: 543-558, 2016 (pdf)

  11. “The Limits of Adverbialism about Intentionality,” Inquiry 59 (5): 488-512, 2016 (pdf)

  12. “Imagining Zombies,” Disputatio 38 (4): 107-116, 2014 (pdf)

Professional and Applied Publications

  1. Thompson, K., Candido, J., Cochrane, P., Brunk, B., Rhode, J., Provos Quarles. J., Shay, M., Petherbridge, D., Bellnier, K., Howell, S., Seal S., and Woodling, C. (2026). Instructional Support. In J. Uranis & V. Cook (Eds.), UPCEA Hallmarks of Excellence in Digital Learning (pp.34-46). UCPEA. https://upcea.edu/hallmarks-digital. [invited contribution]