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Ph.D., Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University
I specialize in early and late modern European philosophy, with a research focus on
Kant鈥檚 theoretical philosophy.
I have published in the following journals: Analysis, Journal of the History of Philosophy, History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis, Kantian Review, Studi Kantiani, and Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science.
Past publications discuss Kant鈥檚 views on the explanatory relation between judgments
and conceptual content; unconscious representations; consciousness and representations
in non-human animals; and the biological concept of organisms. Relatedly, I also
have a publication on the technical vocabulary that 18th century German philosophers
after Leibniz (including Kant) used for talking about and classifying mental representations.
Current work builds on this to address additional topics in Kant鈥檚 philosophy of mind
and metaphysics.
Abstracts of publications are available here:
I have taught extensively across the philosophy curriculum, both historical and contemporary,
and enjoy introducing students to the study of philosophy. Recent advanced undergraduate
courses include: epistemology, philosophy of mind, metaethics, philosophy of social
and political language, ancient Greek and Roman philosophy (Presocratics to Augustine),
early modern European philosophy (Descartes to Kant), Kant鈥檚 Critique of Pure Reason (1781/87), and 19th century European philosophy (Kant to Nietzsche).