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Bioethics & Philosophy of Psychopathology
Publications (forthcoming/under contract, published)
  • “Neuroscience of narrative and perspective-taking: implications for stigma towards those experiencing psychosis” with Pérez-Gay Juarez, F. (under contract) De Brigard, F., & Sinnott-Armstrong, W. (Eds.) Neuroscience & Philosophy. MIT Press.
  • “The over-medicalization of mental disorder, suffering, & meaning-making” (under contract) Lougheed, Kirk (Ed.) Suffering and Meaning-Making: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Brill.
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  • “Embodied Cognition & the Grip of Computational Metaphors” (2025) Ergo - link to article
     
  • “Models of Psychopathology & Religion: suffering, psychosis, and neurodiversity” (2024) Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology - link to article
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  • "Narrative & Spiritual Meaning-making in Mental Disorder”. (2023) International Journal for Philosophy of Religion - link to article
  • "Mental Disorder, Meaning-making, & Religious Engagement" (2022) TheoLogica - link to article
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  • “Potential Iatrogenic Effects of Returning Individual Research Results from Digital Phenotyping in Psychiatry”, (2024) American Journal of Bioethics - link to article
  • “Adoption, Abortion, & Integrity: The Demands of Integrity for Opponents of Abortion”. (2022) In Pregnancy and Persons. Routledge - link to article
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In progress (provisionally accepted, under review, in preparation)

  • “Madness-as-Strategy & Mad Pride”, (invited, in preparation) Journal of Medicine & Philosophy
     

  • "Examining Mad Pride: Well-being, agency, & hermeneutic injustice”" (under review)
     

  • "Supernatural Etiologies of Mental Disorder & Meaning-making (under review)

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  • "Metaphors for the Mind: reshaping psychopathology" (in preparation)

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  • "Etiological Beliefs & Meaning-making in Mood Disorders" (in preparation)
     

  • "Attention Biases & Agency in Addiction" (in preparation) with Fede, S.
     

  • “Other Minds, Other Bodies: Validation of a self-reported narrative embodiment questionnaire” (in preparation) with Durkee, E., Matthews, L., Pérez Gay Juarez, F.
     

  • “Memory metaphors, mnemonic humility, and neurodiversity: illuminating conceptions and experiences of recollection” (in preparation) with Trakas, M.
     

  • “Mnemonic Injustice: How Social Embeddedness Shapes Moral Memory” (in preparation) with Trakas, M., Daley, R., and Soter, L.
     

  • “Mental Disorder, Faith, & Flourishing in Religious Communities”, Theologica (invited, in preparation)

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  • "Inter-religious Differences in Religious Scrupulosity: religious obsessions & compulsions in Christianity, Islam, & Judaism" (in preparation) with Moran, L.
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Grants
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  • Grant, PI, The Philosophy and Neuroscience of Agency: Beliefs about the brain, neurofeedback interventions, and emotional control ($103,257) | Baylor University, 2025 with Samantha Fede
     
  • Grant, PI, Accounts of psychopathology and addiction: neurofeedback interventions & philosophical implications ($31,000) | Baylor University, 2025 with Samantha Fede
     
  • Grant, co-PI, Duke University ($26,684) | "Prosocial & Emotional Effects of Narratives: The Role of Perspective-taking Brain Networks" 2022-2023 with Fernanda Pérez Gay Juarez, Samantha Fede, Rodrigo Diaz, and Laura Matthews
     

  • Grant, PI, New Visions in Theological Anthropology, University of St. Andrews ($26,209) | "Emotional Stability & Religious Engagement" 2022-2023
     

  • Grant, PI, Global Health Program, Hope College ($14,600) | "Narratives of Mental Disorders in Religious Communities" 2022 with Stephanie Pangborn and student research collaborators Brooke Bennett and Emily Davidson

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  • Grant, PI, Calvin University ($17,896) | "Mental Disorder & Psychological Stability in Christianity" 2022

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  • Grant, PI, Blueprint 1543 ($14,644) | "Transformative Narratives of Mental Disorder & Religion" 2021

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  • Grant, Towsley research scholars grant, Hope College ($58,000) | "Explorations of Neurodiversity, Embodiment, and Religious Engagement" 2022-2025 
     

  • Grant, Nyenhuis student-faculty collaborative research grants (x3), Hope College ($22,064) | 2022 - with Christina Chiazza, 2021 - with Megan Jacobs, 2020 - with Emma Passaglia ​

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Philosophy of Cognitive Science & Philosophy of Technology
  • "A Defense of Cognitive Penetration & the Face-Race Lightness Illusion" Philosophical Psychology (2022) - full article
     
  • "Mnemonic Injustice: How Social Embeddedness Shapes Moral Memory" (in progress)
     
  •  “A Module on Ethics and Social Implications of Computing for Introductory Engineering Computing Courses”. (2022) with Odle, B. American Society for Engineering Education.
     
  • “The Ethical and Social Dimensions of Computing in Engineering”. (forthcoming) with Odle, B., Longfield, V., & Serrao, R. In Bias & Machine Learning. McGraw-Hill.
     
  • Grant, PI, Duke University ($28,203) | "Group Membership Modulation of Memory and Judgments for Morally Ambiguous Actions" 2022-2023 with Ryan Daley, Cecilia Forcato, Lauren Kaczer, Marina Trakas, Laura Soter
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Other Philosophy of Cognitive Science & Philosophy of Religion
  • "Narrative, Theology, and Philosophy of Religion." Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion. Wiley-Blackwell (2021) with Seachris, J. - full article

In this entry, we survey key discussions on the role of narrative in theology and philosophy of religion. We begin with epistemological questions about whether and how narrative offers genuine understanding of reality. We explore how narrative intersects with the problems of evil and divine hiddenness. We discuss narrative's role in theological reflection and practice in general, and in black and feminist theologies specifically. We close by briefly exploring the role of narrative in theorization about life's meaning.

  • "Philosophy of Mind." T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Christian Theology. T&T Clark / Bloomsbury (2021)
  • "Petitionary Prayer: A Philosophical Investigation, by Scott Davison." Faith and Philosophy (2019) - full article
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  • "Ritualized Faith: Essays on the Philosophy of Liturgy, by Terence Cuneo." Religious Studies Review (2019) - full article
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