About Me
Plato and Kant occasionally speak to me.
I'm originally from Portland, Oregon. I went to Dartmouth as a biochemistry major fully intending to go into biomedical research, but defected to philosophy late in the game. Trading the bucolic small-town living for the big city, I entered Columbia University for my Ph.D., where I studied logic, metaphysics, and (building on my scientific training from college) the philosophy of science.
I returned west for my first tenure-track appointment, at the University of Idaho, in the lovely inland northwest where I stayed for three years before moving east again to teach at Bucknell. I was tenured at Bucknell in 2013 and promoted to Professor in 2018.
Aside from philosophy, I'm a committed though mediocre basketball and tennis player (and watcher), an avid guitar and piano player (and listener), a single-malt scotch, wine, and beer enthusiast, and a serious/amateur photographer (if that's a thing).
I returned west for my first tenure-track appointment, at the University of Idaho, in the lovely inland northwest where I stayed for three years before moving east again to teach at Bucknell. I was tenured at Bucknell in 2013 and promoted to Professor in 2018.
Aside from philosophy, I'm a committed though mediocre basketball and tennis player (and watcher), an avid guitar and piano player (and listener), a single-malt scotch, wine, and beer enthusiast, and a serious/amateur photographer (if that's a thing).
