I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. 

​My main research interests lie in Metaphysics, Early Modern Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy (particularly as it relates to Islam) and the History of Analytic Philosophy (esp. Frege, Russell, and early Wittgenstein). 

A primary focus of my work is the Principle of Sufficient Reason (roughly: 'Everything has an explanation'). The principle was a prime tenet of early modern rationalism, and thus much of my work in the history of early modern philosophy concerns metaphysical themes in Leibniz, Spinoza, Du Châtelet, and other early modern rationalists. I also spend a lot of my time thinking about the Principle of Sufficient Reason as a thesis within contemporary metaphysics. Questions I have investigated include: How should we understand the PSR, in light of recent developments in metaphysics? What is the best argument for the principle? And how does a commitment to the PSR shape the metaphysical landscape? 
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I've also written, presented, and thought about a range of other topics, including: depatriarchalizing strategies in Quranic interpretation, human rights, modesty, Iris Murdoch, idealism, time travel, Bertrand Russell's theory of knowledge and methodology in metaphysics. 

I am currently completing a monograph on the metaphysical commitments of inquiry.