Education

MSW in Clinical Social Work, Simmons (2021)

Postgraduate Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis (2019)

PhD in Philosophy, Princeton (2008)

AB in Literature, Harvard (2001)

Clinical Experience

Cambridge Therapy Center (2024-present)

I am a therapist (LICSW; independently licensed in Massachusetts) in private practice seeing individuals managing challenges with mood, addictions, and life transitions. My practice draws on my experience in a broad range of clinical and medical settings, as well as my background and ongoing work on the philosophical aspects of psychotherapy.

Brookline Center for Community Mental Health (2022-2023)

Clinician in the CEDAR Clinic, an interdisciplinary research clinic focused on the treatment of clinical high risk in adolescents and young adults. I saw clients for individual and family therapy and co-led a group focused on atypical feelings and experiences.

Freedom Trail Clinic (2021-2022)

The Freedom Trail Clinic is a Massachusetts General Hospital-affiliated clinic focused on the treatment of serious mental illness (including bipolar disorder and schizophrenia spectrum disorders). I saw clients for individual therapy and founded a group for men living with serious mental illness.

Boston Medical Center (2020-2021)

Clinical intern in the Infectious DIseases practice, providing individual psychotherapy to individuals, primarily with HIV. Much of my work focused on the treatment of mood disorders and addiction (including opiates and crystal methamphetamine).

Tufts Medical Center (2019-2020)

Clinical intern in the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, focused on managing psychosocial stressors presenting in a large dental medicine school. Much of my work focused on leading a program to provide basic dental care to individuals in early recovery from addiction, based on this groundbreaking research.

Academic Experience

Lesley University (2022 – present)

Adjunct faculty at Lesley University, where I have taught courses in both philosophy (Introduction to Philosophy) and psychology (Adult Development and Mental Health)

Bentley University (2022 – present)

Adjunct faculty at Bentley University, where I teach undergraduate courses in philosophy (Ultimate Questions, Problems of Philosophy).

Peking University (2014 – 2017)

I was Associate Professor of Philosophy at Peking University, China’s leading humanities university, where I taught undergraduate and graduate courses in metaphysics and philosophy of language.

Cambridge University (2012 – 2014)

I was a Research Fellow at Cambridge University, where I taught undergraduate tutorials and was affiliated with St. John’s College.

Other Appointments

In addition to the positions listed above, I have held research or teaching positions at the Australian National University, the University of Sydney, and the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Books

The Disabled Will: A Theory of Addiction. Forthcoming. Routledge.

Options and Agency. 2023. Palgrave Macmillan.

Journal Articles

Addiction Is a Disability, and It Matters. Neuroethics 14: 467-477 (2021).

Ability, Modality, and Genericity. Philosophical Studies 175: 411-428 (2018). 

Modal Predicates. Linguistics and Philosophy 39: 443-457 (2016).

Dispositions and Ergativity. The Philosophical Quarterly 65: 381-395 (2015). 

The Agentive Modalities. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 90: 113-134 (2015).

The Argument from Moral Responsibility. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 92: 249-267 (2014).

Recent Invited Talks

Harm Reduction as Reasonable Accommodation (NIH/Kennedy Center; November 2023)

Keynote Speaker, Romanell Workshop (University at Buffalo; August 2023)           

The No Defect View of Addiction (NYU Bioethics; May 2023)        

Addiction and Volitional Disability (University of Granada; June 2022)                   

Options and Imprecision (University of Konstanz; September 2021)                                

Addiction Is a Disability, and It Matters (Mass. General Hospital; August 2021)