I’m a philosopher at Auburn University.

My central research project sits at the intersection of philosophy of mind and metaphysics, providing an alternative account of the relationship between perceivers, perceptual experiences, and the perceptible world. My research also engages with epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, and philosophy of AI. I’ve recently been developing an account of semantic understanding, which I’ll present in a symposium at the ‘26 Central APA.

In the summer of 2025, I worked as the Kempe Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in AI Philosophy, based at Umeå University in Sweden. (I’ll continue this fellowship in 2026-2027 academic year.) Before that, I was a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT, where I received my PhD in May of 2024. I got my B.A. from Dartmouth in 2019. Here’s a copy of my C.V.

Email me at jessheine@auburn.edu