Research Statement

My research mainly falls into two main categories: a) philosophical issues related to Madagascar and comparative philosophy and b) philosophical issues in intentionality, concepts, and language. Click here for my research statement, which provides more detail.

Publications

  1. “The Structure of Intentionality: Concepts, Intentional Objects, and the Reification Fallacy,” Australasian Philosophical Review, forthcoming

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

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

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

  5. "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)

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

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

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

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

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

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