My dissertation lives at the intersection of social epistemology (i.e., feminist epistemology and applied epistemology) and metaphysics (i.e., the metaphysics of personal identity).
I focus on personal identity as a form of narrative self-constitution. Following work by Marya Schechtman, I investigate what it might mean for us to treat people's self-knowledge as being grounded in grossly unsupported inferences.
I introduce two new kinds of harm that stem from treating one's inferences about their self as grossly unsupportable: narrative epistemic harm and narrative metaphysical harm. These two harms, I suggest, can be epistemically, normatively, and metaphysically damaging to persons and potential persons.
Outside of my dissertation research, I have interests in ethics, moral psychology, values in science, and the scholarship of teaching and learning & philosophical pedagogy.
