I am Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University. 

I work on epistemology and Sanskrit philosophy. In epistemology, I explore connections between self-knowledge and rationality. In Sanskrit philosophy, I work on debates between Buddhist and Brahmanical thinkers about the nature of the self, knowledge, and self-knowledge.

More recently, I have been developing an approach to epistemology (inspired by Sanskrit thinkers) that takes the concept of learning, rather than of knowledge or justification, to be both conceptually basic and explanatorily central. My forthcoming book about the 12th century philosopher and poet Śrīharṣa, The Instability of Reason: Śrīharṣa on the Foundations of Epistemology, is my first attempt to articulate what such an approach looked like in premodern South Asia and what challenges it faced. 

Here is a not-so-recent CV. You can reach me at [email protected].