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PUBLICATIONS
Philosophy of Psychiatry & Bioethics
  • Expanding Conceptual Resources for Understanding Mental Disorder: Strategy, Pride, and Dysfunction approaches (forthcoming) Journal of Medicine & Philosophy.
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  • Mechanisms & Machine Metaphors in Psychiatry (forthcoming) Philosophy of Science (PSA 2026 Contributed Paper Proceedings).
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  • Neuroscience of narrative and perspective-taking: implications for stigma towards those experiencing psychosis” with Pérez-Gay Juarez, F. (forthcoming) De Brigard, F., & Sinnott-Armstrong, W. (Eds.) Neuroscience & Philosophy. MIT Press.
     
  • The over-medicalization of mental disorder, suffering, & meaning-making (forthcoming) Lougheed, Kirk (Ed.) Suffering and Meaning-Making: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Brill.
     
  • Models of Psychopathology & Religion: suffering, psychosis, and neurodiversity (2024) Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology - link to article
     
  • Potential Iatrogenic Effects of Returning Individual Research Results from Digital Phenotyping in Psychiatry, (2024) American Journal of Bioethics - link to article
     
  • 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
     
  • Adoption, Abortion, & Integrity: The Demands of Integrity for Opponents of Abortion (2022) In Pregnancy and Persons. Routledge - link to article
Philosophy of Cognitive Science & Applied Ethics
  • Embodied Cognition & the Grip of Computational Metaphors (2025) Ergo - link to article
     
  • A Defense of Cognitive Penetration & the Face-Race Lightness Illusion Philosophical Psychology (2022) - full article
     
  •  “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
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, 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
     

  • 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 ​

Philosophy of Religion
  • "Narrative, Theology, and Philosophy of Religion." Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion. Wiley-Blackwell (2021) with Seachris, J. - full article
     
  • "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
     
  • "Ritualized Faith: Essays on the Philosophy of Liturgy, by Terence Cuneo." Religious Studies Review (2019) - full article
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Works in Progress

  • A paper on agency and attention in addiction with Samantha Fede (under review)

  • A paper on Mad Pride, suffering, & hermeneutic resources (under review)

  • A paper on the explanatory and semiotic functions of psychiatric diagnoses (in preparation)

  • A paper on a narrative embodiment scale with Durkee, E., Matthews, L., Pérez Gay Juarez, F. (in preparation)

  • A paper on theoretical and empirical work on memory metaphors and beliefs about memory and mnemonic humility with Marina Trakas and Ryan Daley (in preparation)

  • A paper on AI tools and self-knowledge in mental disorder (in preparation)

  • A paper on inter-religious differences in religious scrupulosity with Erin Moran (in preparation)

  • A paper on an empirical study on moral memory and out-group dynamics and biases (in preparation)

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