I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Florida State University. My research focuses on issues in perception, imagination, and schizophrenia.

I was a graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh, and before that I received my BA from UC Berkeley.

You can contact me at smpatel[at]fsu.edu.

Research

Of the Perfect and the Ordinary: Indistinguishability and Hallucination, Philosophical Quarterly, forthcoming.

Between Scientific and Empathetic Understanding: The Case of Auditory Verbal Hallucination, British Journal of Philosophy of Science, forthcoming.

Thought Insertion without Thought, Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2023.

Towards a Conative Account of Mental Imagery, Philosophical Psychology, 2022.

From Speech to Voice: On the Content of Inner Speech, Synthese, 2021.

Teaching

Philosophy of Mind (Florida State University)

The Problem of Perception (Florida State University, graduate seminar)

Imagination and Mental Imagery (Florida State University, graduate seminar)

Introduction to Philosophy (Florida State University)

Ancient Philosophy (University of Pittsburgh)