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, and the philosophies of mind, science, and language to get clearer about what we ought do in a technologically complex world. 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.

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.