I specialize in philosophy of mind and epistemology, drawing on both contemporary analytic philosophy and Sanskrit philosophy. I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University, where I do research as part of the Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion. I received my PhD in Philosophy from Harvard University in November 2025.

My primary research is on self-knowledge and attention. I am particularly interested in the sources, limits, and value of self-knowledge, and the role that attention plays in introspection. Through my work in Buddhist philosophy of mind, I have also become deeply interested in the metaphysics of properties, especially in trope-theoretic approaches.

My PhD dissertation focuses on debates between Kumārila and Dharmakīrti on the epistemic sources of self-knowledge and between Vasubandhu and his Hindu and Buddhist interlocutors on the possibility of self-knowledge within the framework of Buddhist “no self” theory. I show that these seemingly distinct debates converge on a single idea, namely, that no adequate account of self-knowledge may let subjects self-ascribe as many experiences as there are objects, or experiences that are not their own.

My CV can be found here. You can reach me at sk2141@princeton.edu