I’m a graduate student in the New York University Center for Bioethics and an Associate Research Scholar in the NYU Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy. I think about rationality and choice through the lenses of ethics, the philosophies of mind, science, and language to get clearer about how we reason and the nature of the mind. I’m currently working on projects about the semantics of fear, a pluralistic approach to moral reasoning, and functionalism about the mind.

I volunteer in the NYU Neuroeconomics Lab working on studies of decision behavior in major depression and the neural dynamics of political belief change. I also helped establish the NYU Bioethics Workshop.

Before all that, I studied Biotechnology at Columbia University, and Philosophy and Biology with a specialization in Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, and Genetics at Boston University. I also freelance as a science writer/creative director in medical communications. Write me at fpd216@nyu.edu, and find more of my digital footprint at fpdevita.github.io.