Welcome to my website! I am a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Davidson College. Before that, I was a McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellow in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program at Washington University in St. Louis. I received my PhD in philosophy from the University of California, Irvine in 2024.

I am a historian of early modern philosophy specializing in 17th and 18th century theories of perception and their interactions with the early foundations of vision science. My current research focuses primarily on Berkeley’s theory of vision and idealist metaphysics. I am also developing work on the 11th century natural philosopher Ibn al-Haytham and on issues around attention and perceptual representation in present-day philosophies of cognitive science and neuroscience.

For more, check out my research page or email me.

You can download my CV here.

You can contact me at: evsommers [at] davidson [dot] edu