He is a graduate of Indiana University (Bloomington) where he was part of a rich inter-disciplinary community (philosophers, computer scientists, psychologists, and biologists) working on issues in animal cognition. He was also a founding member of the Indiana University Philosophy Departments’ Empirical Epistemology Laboratory – a group focused on applying methods from the social sciences to issues within the theory of knowledge in particular as well as philosophy more generally. Since arriving at BSU, Stephen’s research has focused on the twin issues of providing a coherent intellectual framework for empirical philosophy, and developing an understanding of the barriers to and mechanisms for conducting inter-disciplinary collaborative research.