Biography

I am currently an affiliate faculty member at Metropolitan State University of Denver. I am trained in the areas of phenomenology and continental philosophy. My dissertation explored some essential connections between recognizing the Other as such and forming a robust self-conception. My current interests revolve around the nature of agency — especially ethical agency — self-constitution, and the limits of naturalism.

Selected Publications

“Hope, Nostalgia, and the Re-Imagination of ‘Patriotism’ in the 21st Century United States,” Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Spring/Fall 2024 (double issue): 111-132.

“Levinas’s Early Model of Self and the Gift of Time,” Philosophical Forum, 2010: 299-314.

(Book Review)
“The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity, by Kwame Anthony Appiah,” Teaching Philosophy, 2021, 253-257.