I am a Ph.D. student in philosophy at Syracuse University.
Current and Future Research:
I am currently writing a dissertation on the metaphysics of race, expecting to defend in the summer of 2008. I have continuing interests in race, including but not limited to metaphysical questions. I also have research interests in several other areas of metaphysics, including personal identity, persistence through time, material composition, philosophy of time, vagueness, and free will. I am also interested in philosophy of religion, especially God's relation to time, foreknowledge and human freedom, philosophical theology, and the existence of God. I have a strong background in the history of philosophy, especially in the ancient through early modern periods, and I have special interests in Augustine and Leibniz.
Teaching:
I am sometimes an adjunct instructor in the Philosophy Department at
(a) introductory courses: ethics (theory and applied), metaphysics/epistemology, human nature (historically-focused), history of Western philosophy from the pre-Socratics through Descartes
(b) junior-level contemporary ethical theory, applied ethics, and history of ethics
(c) senior-level applied ethics
Materials:
Sample handouts from courses
Sample dialogue assignment
Example of student dialogue
Sample video assignment
Syllabi for some courses I have taught:
Philosophical Foundations of Western Thought (PHL 101 at
Le Moyne College)
Theories of Knowledge and Reality (PHI 107 at
Ethics and Value Theory (PHI 191 at
Human Nature (PHI 197 at
Issues in Ethics (PHL 302 at Le Moyne College)
History of Ethics (PHI 391 at
Syllabi for some courses I would like to teach:
Publication:
Review of God and Time: Four Views, ed. Gregory E. Ganssle, InterVarsity Press, 2001, in Faith and Philosophy (October 2003)