Areas of Central Interest
- Pending Further Review
- Ethics and Metaethics
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of Language
- Kant, his predecessors and his descendents
- Philosophy of Mind
- PhD Candidate Philosophy. Ohio State University
- Candidacy earned Winter 2012 under advisor Ben Caplan and committee Kevin Scharp, Declan Smithies and David Sanson
- M.A. Philosophy. Georgia State University (2009)
- Thesis Advisor: Melissa McBay Merritt
- Thesis Committee: Jessica Berry, Sebastian Rand
- B.A. English, Theatre, Philosophy. Drake University (2006)
- Thesis Advisor: Allen Scult
- “Two Dimensions of Moral Responsibility” at the Georgia Philosophical Society. April 2009
- Response to Dylan Murray’s “Mad Beliefs” at Georgia State University Graduate Symposium. April 2009.
- Graduate Representative, Ohio State University (2010-12)
- Phi Sigma Tau, Georgia State University. President. (2008-9)
- Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics, Georgia State University. President (2008-9)
- Georgia State University Graduate Student Symposium. Coordinator. (2009)
- “Curry Cocolatte” in Turback, Michael (ed.) Coffee Drinks. (2008) Ten Speed Press, Toronto. http://www.amazon.com/Coffee-Drinks-Michael-Turback/dp/1580089267
Pedagogy
- Instructor
- Engineering Ethics (Ohio State University)
- Critical Thinking (Georgia State University)
- Grader/Assistant
- Advanced Undergraduate Ethics (Ohio State University)
- Philosophical Problems in the Arts (Ohio State University)
- Probability and Inductive Reasoning (Ohio State University)
- Advanced Undergraduate Metaphysics (Ohio State University)
- Critical Thinking (Georgia State University)
- Introduction to Philosophy (Ohio State University, Georgia State University, Drake University)
Graduate Coursework:
- History
- Early Modern Mind-Body Problem (Sukjae Lee and Lisa Downing)
- Kant’s First Critique (Melissa Merritt, Lisa Shabel)
- Hegel’s Phenomenology (Sebastian Rand)
- Marx and Marxism (Jessica Berry)
- Plato’s Republic (Allan Silverman)
- Metaphysics, Epistemology, Logic, Language
- Epistemology and Phenomenology (Declan Smithies)
- Introspection (Declan Smithies)*
- Indeterminacy Arguments (Kevin Scharp)
- Logic (Sebastian Rand, Stewart Shapiro)
- Tense (David Sanson)
- Modality (David Sanson)*
- Relativism (Stewart Shapiro)
- Pragmatism and Representationalism (Robert Kraut)
- Propositions (Ben Caplan)
- Frege (William Taschek)
- Logicism (Neil Tennant)
- Philosophy of Science (Sebastian Rand, Lisa Downing)
- Methodology
- Methodological Naturalism (Kevin Scharp)
- Experimental Philosophy (Eddy Nahmias, Richard Samuels)
- Philosophy of Mind
- Survey (Eddy Nahmias)
- Emotions (Andrea Scarantino)
- Moral Psychology (Eddy Nahmias, Tim Schroeder)
- Consciousness (Declan Smithies)
- Informational Semantics (Andrea Scarantino)
- Ethics and Action
- Metaethics (Sigrun Svavarsdottir)*
- Ethics (Andrew Jason Cohen)
- Reasons for Action (Sigrun Svavarsdottir)
*Not enrolled
