My research interests focus on contemporary debates in philosophy of mind and epistemology in which an adequate understanding of our perceptual states is fundamental. I have published books, articles and directed research projects around philosophical problems such as the tension between relational and representational theories in the field of perceptual metaphysics, the debate between conceptualists and non-conceptualists, the nature of attention and its relationship with the emergence of perceptual consciousness. I have recently investigated questions concerned with the epistemological and metaphysical implications of cognitive penetrability in visual perception. In addition to a systematic concern for contemporary issues, I maintain a vivid interest in the history of philosophy, particularly in the thought of David Hume. Regarding the latter, I am motivated to investigate the possibility of reconciling his skepticism with realist proposals and the legitimacy of carrying out reliabilist readings of the justification of our inductive beliefs within his epistemology.