Research

My research focuses on questions in philosophy of mind, language, and the cognitive sciences, broadly construed. I am interested in how language and other higher cognitive abilities are grounded in more basic, embodied abilities and processes, such as emotion, perception, action, and preverbal communication. My approach to these questions is based in the European phenomenological tradition, in particular the work of Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty. I also draw from analytic philosophy; 4E cognitive sciences; and empirical research in psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience. My work also increasingly engages the Indian philosophical tradition, especially the yoga school.

Here you can find the complete lists of my publications and presentations.

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In Search of Lost Speech: Merleau-Ponty between Nature and Language

Translation and Presentation of Tran Duc Thao’s “On Indochina” (1946)

On the Same Wavelength: The Motivations at the Core of Human Uniqueness

Horizons of the Word: Thoughts on the Experience of Speech

The Surplus of Signification: Experience and Language in Humans and Chimpanzees