Research
Selected Publications
“Ecological Self-Understanding: A Cross-Cultural Epistemic Virtue in Contemporary Native American and Confucian Philosophy” Science, Religion and Culture Vol. 6, Number 1. 42-49. 2019
“Understanding the Nature of Mental States: Psychiatry, The Mind / Body Problem, and The Biopsychosocial Model of Medicine” pp. 41-58 in Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Psychiatry, Edited by Robyn Bluhm and Şerife Tekin. London, England: Bloomsbury. 2019
“Transformations in Understanding: Lessons on Self and Culture from Teaching Abroad” pp. 21-31 in Narrative Inquiries from Fulbright Lecturers in China: Cross-Cultural Connections in Higher Education, Edited by Shin Freedman, Pat Munday, and Jeannette Cockroft, Philadelphia: Routledge. 2019
Book Review: The Interdisciplinary Science of Consumption edited by Stephanie D. Preston, Morten L.Kringelbach, and Brian Knutson. Metapsychology Online Reviews, Vol. 19, Number 24. 2015
“Phenomenal Knowledge, Dualism, and Dreams” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective Vol. 4, Number 6. 2015
“Knowledge and NOW: What Is the Epistemic Standing of the Present Moment?” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective Vol. 3, Number 10. 2014
Rethinking Introspection: A Pluralist Approach to the First-Person Perspective. New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan. 2013
“From Regulation to Virtue: A Critique of Ethical Formalism in Research Organizations” Co-authored with Timothy N. Atkinson.Journal of Research Administration Vol. 43, Number 1. 2012
“Introspective Knowledge of Experience and Its Role in Consciousness Studies” Journal of Consciousness Studies Vol. 18, Number 2. 2011
“Scan Thyself” in Philip K. Dick and Philosophy: Do Androids Have Kindred Spirits?, Edited by D. E. Wittkower. Peru, IL: Open Court Publishing Company. 2011
Book Review: The Situated Self by J. T. Ismael, Philosophy in Review, Vol. 30, Number 2. 2010
Book Review: Describing Inner Experience? Proponent Meets Skeptic by Russell T. Hurlburt and Eric Schwitzgebel, Philosophy in Review, Vol. 28, Number 4. 2008
Book Review: The New Science of Dreaming Three Volume Anthology Edited by Deirdre Barrett and Patrick McNamara, Metapsychology Online Review, Vol. 11, Number 52. 2007
“A New Paradigm for Understanding Conflicts of Interest in Clinical Trials” Co-authored with M. D. Mumford and M. W. Foster.Philosophy and Ethics: New Research. Edited by L. V. Siegal. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc. 2006
Selected Presentations
“Ecological Self-Understanding: Towards an Integrative East-West Approach to Self-Environment Relations” The Asian Studies Development Program 22nd Annual National Conference, Washington D.C. March 19, 2016
“Cross-Cultural Conceptions of Self” The Asian Studies Development Program 21st Annual National Conference, Branson, MO. March 20, 2015
“Introspection and Blade Runner: The Philosophy of Self-Knowledge Meets A.I.” PhiRe Film and Lecture Series, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR. April 9, 2013
“A Dilemma Concerning Phenomenal Knowledge” Toward a Science of Consciousness, Tucson, AZ. April 13, 2012 and Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Memphis, TN. February 16, 2013
“The Type / Token Distinction and the Understanding of Mental Phenomena in the Biopsychosocial Model” Annual Meeting of theAssociation for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, Philadelphia, PA. May 5, 2012
“Minds and Machines: The Possibility of Artificial Intelligence and What It Reveals About the Human Mind” Presentation and Panel Discussion with Charles Harvey and Ronald Novy, UCA College of Liberal Arts Exploring Our World seminar, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR. November 8, 2011
“Darwinism and American Religious Thought” Presentation and Panel Discussion with Jeff Williams and Phillip Spivey, UCA College of Liberal Arts Exploring Our World seminar, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR. February 19, 2011
“On Acquaintance with Oneself” Science and Nonduality Conference, San Rafael, CA. October 24, 2009
“How To Be Open-Minded Without Letting Your Brain Fall Out” Invited Presentation for the Arkansas Governor’s School, Hendrix College, Conway, AR. July 1, 2008 and the Phire Film and Lecture Series, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR. March 18, 2008