Academic Appointments Marymount University, Assistant Professor, 2012-Present
Biola University, Visiting Assistant Professor, 2010-2012
EducationPh.D., Philosophy, University of California, Riverside, December 2010 M.A., Philosophy, University of California, Riverside, March 2007 B.A., Philosophy, Biola University, May 2004
Areas of Specialization Ethics, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Mind
Areas of Competence Ancient Philosophy, Logic, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion
Dissertation Strawsonian Libertarianism: A Theory of Free Will and Moral Responsibility Chair: John Fischer
Publications ‘The Assimilation Argument and the Rollback Argument’, forthcoming in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. ‘Valuing Blame’, forthcoming in Blame: Its Nature and Norms, eds. D. Justin Coates and Neal A. Tognazzini. New York: Oxford University Press. ‘A Theory of the Normative Force of Pleas’, forthcoming in Philosophical Studies. Available with subscription here.
‘Masks, Abilities, and Opportunities: Why the New Dispositionalism Cannot Succeed’, The Modern Schoolman (now Res Philosophica) 88:1&2, (2011): 89-103. (Special issue on Free Will and Moral Responsibility)‘The Problem of Enhanced Control’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 89:4, (2011): 687-706. Available with subscription here. ‘Farewell to the Luck (and Mind) Argument’, Philosophical Studies 156:2, (2011): 199–230. Free online here. ‘Neo-Frankfurtians and Buffer Cases: The New Challenge to the Principle of Alternative Possibilities’, Philosophical Studies 152:2, (2011): 189–207. Free online here. ‘Plausibility, Manipulation, and Fischer and Ravizza’, Southern Journal of Philosophy 44:2, (2006): 173-192. Available with subscription here.
Presentations ‘Masks, Abilities, and Opportunities: Why the New Dispositionalism Cannot Succeed’, Colloquium, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, April 2012 Comments on Tamler Sommers’s ‘Free Will and Experimental Philosophy: An Intervention’, Experimental Philosophy Society Group Session, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, April 2012. ‘Event-Causal Libertarianism, Functional Reduction, and the Disappearing Agent Argument’, Colloquium, American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting, February 2012. Comments on John Martin Fischer's ‘Semicompatibiblism and Its Rivals’, Association of Student Philosophers Conference, Biola University, November 2011 ‘What's Luck Got to Do with It?’, Symposium, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, April 2011. ‘The Problem of Enhanced Control’, Colloquium, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, April 2010. ‘The No Opportunity Argument’, Society of Christian Philosophers, Mountain-Pacific Region Meeting, Fort Lewis College, October 2009. ‘Buffer Cases, Enabling Conditions, and the Principle of Alternative Possibilities’, Society of Christian Philosophers, Midwestern Region Meeting, Oklahoma Baptist University, April 2009. ‘Truth At a World for Modal Propositions’, Colloquium, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meetings, March 2008. Comments on Matthew Talbert’s, ‘Implanted Desires, Self-Formation, and Blameworthiness’, Second Annual UCR Alumni Conference, UC, Riverside, March 2008. ‘Another One Bites the Dust: Why Buffer Cases Fail to Refute the Principle of Alternative Possibilities’, Society of Christian Philosophers, Mountain-Pacific Region Meeting, Azusa Pacific University, February 2007. Comments of Ed Luk’s, ‘Physicalistic Functionalism and the Possessive Form of the First-Person Indexical’, Society of Christian Philosophers, Pacific-Mountain Region Meeting, University of San Diego Feburary 2006.
Teaching Experience Marymount University Ethical Theory, F '12 Introduction to Philosophy, F '12
Biola University Introduction to Philosophy, F '10, S '11, F '11, S '12 Philosophy Seminar: Intellectual Virtues, F '10 Philosophy Seminar: Poverty, S '11 Philosophy Seminar: The Problem of Evil, F '11 Philosophy Seminar: Epictetus's Discourses, S '12
University of California, Riverside Introduction to Logic, S '08, SS '08
Teaching Assistant Experience (UCR) Business Ethics, SS '06, SS '07 Critical Thinking, SS '10 Ethics and the Meaning of Life, F '08 Evil, S '07 Formal Logic, F '07, W '09 Introduction to Logic, W '07, W '08, SS '09 Introduction to Philosophy, F '06, S '09
Awards University of California Graduate Fellow in the Humanities at the University of California, Riverside Center for Ideas and Society, Winter 2011 [declined] Graduate Student Outstanding Paper Prize, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, April 2011 Chancellor’s Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Riverside 2009-2011 SUN Scholarship, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, Summer 2009 Humanities Graduate Student Research Grant, University of California, Riverside, Summer 2009 Graduate Student Outstanding Paper Prize, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, March 2008 Dean's Distinguished Fellowship Award, University of California, Riverside, 2005-2006 Outstanding Senior Thesis Presentation Award, Biola University, 2004
Services and Professional Affiliations Assistant Colloquia Organizer, University of California, Riverside, 2009-2010 Co-organizer of the Society of Christian Philosophers, Mountain-Pacific Region Meeting, University of California, Riverside, October 2008 Graduate Student Representative, University of California, Riverside, 2007-2008 Graduate Student Research Assistant, University of California, Riverside, Fall 2006, Eric Schwitzgebel Member of the American Philosophical Association, 2005-present Member of the Society of Christian Philosophers, 2005-present Member of the Society for Philosophy of Agency, 2012-present
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