Education

  • Graduate Diploma, Teaching (Secondary). Subject specialisations: Digital technologies, psychology. (In progress)
  • BA(Hons), Philosophy (First Class). Thesis: The State Quotation Theory of Phenomenal Consciousness. (2024)
  • BSc, Philosophy and Computer Science. (2023)
  • Diploma, Software Engineering and Design. (2018)
  • Notable elective subjects: Cognitive Psychology, Linguistics, Mathematics, Neurobiology, Mathematical Cognition.

Experience

  • Student Teacher, Middleton Grange School (2025). Subjects taught: Year 9-10 Digital Technologies, Year 9-10 Electronics and Robotics, Year 7-8 Structural Technology.
  • Research Assistant, Philosophy Department, University of Canterbury (2023 - 2024).
  • Essay Marker, Philosophy Department, University of Canterbury (2024).
  • Summer Intern, Systems Engineering Department, Soul Machines (2022 - 2023). Research project: Exploring the feasibility of an intent prediction model.

Awards

  • David Novitz Prize (2023). "The prize is awarded at the beginning of the year to the most promising student enrolling for a BA(Hons) or an MA in Philosophy at the University of Canterbury. (...) The scholarship was established in 2003 in memory of Associate Professor David Novitz, who taught Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies from 1971 until his untimely death in 2001."

Current Projects

  • The State Quotation Theory of Phenomenal Consciousness (coauthor: Dr. Douglas Ian Campbell). We're turning my Honours thesis into a paper. We think we have an answer to all the big questions and arguments regarding physicalistic accounts of phenomenal consciousness, including (but not limited to) the hard problem, the explanatory gap, the epistemic gap, philosophical zombies, and spectrum inverts.
  • Agentic Language. I'm writing a domain-specific language in Racket to perform experiments on my ideas surrounding cognition and consciousness.
  • Literature Searcher. A Python application I started developing as a research assistant. I used it to automatically search all of Ludwig Wittgnestein's writings for themes of animal communication.
  • Lesson Planner. A web application I started developing as a student teacher that streamlines the process of creating lesson plans for NCEA students. For example, it automatically populates dropdowns with relevant achievement objectives from the New Zealand curriculum depending on the year level and subject entered.