I am a Leverhulme Trust research fellow in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. My philosophical work involves investigating the biological foundations of purposiveness, questioning mechanistic understandings of life, and exploring the connections between humanistic and organicist conceptions of agency as a process of self-constitution. My first book A Drive to Survive, was recently published with MIT Press and develops these ideas via a critique of the Free Energy Principle. I have previously worked as a science/technology journalist for WIRED Magazine, Aeon Magazine, the Guardian, the New Statesman, the Economist, GQ, and the Institute of Public Policy Research.