I am interested especially in the philosophy of psychiatry, neuroethics, psychiatric ethics, biomedical ethics, metaethics, metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, moral psychology, feminist theory, and intersections between neuroscience and philosophy. My current research is on ethical issues surrounding antidepressant use. A subset of the questions I work on (or plan to work on) are:

• What is the self?
• What, if anything, counts as the authentic, core, or essential self?
• What, if anything, can antidepressants tell us about the authentic, core, or essential self? (for example, is Peter Kramer right when he says that Prozac can "redefine... what [is] essential and what [is] contingent about [one's] own personality"?)
• To what extent does who we think we are determine who we really are?

• What relationships can we have with ourselves (self-trust, self-respect, self-love, self-deception, self-objectification, self-enhancement, etc.)?
• What are the moral constraints on these relationships?
  • Do we have any moral obligations to ourselves?
  • Are we obligated to respect ourselves?
  • Are we obligated to improve ourselves?
  • Is it impermissible to objectify ourselves?
• Can self-enhancement undermine self-respect?
• How, if at all, do advances in neuroscience affect the answers to the above questions?

• What moral considerations surround the use of antidepressants?
• What moral considerations surround the practice of "cosmetic psychopharmacology"?
• What moral considerations surround the use of enhancement technologies, broadly construed?

• What implications do certain neuroscientific findings have on gender equity?
• What can neuroscience tell us (if anything) about the veracity of certain moral theories?