She earned her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Bristol, and has previously been a Research Fellow at the University of Stirling, a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian National University. Her research is primarily in philosophy of mind and the philosophy of cognitive science, including psychological explanation, embodied and extended cognition, theories of perception, unconscious/implicit/tacit cognition, the nature of representation, and the philosophy of psychiatry.