Interests

My philosophical interests lie mainly in epistemology (broadly construed to include questions in the philosophies of science, perception, mind, and psychology), moral and political philosophy, and the history of early modern European philosophy. Other interests include modal logic, the history of 20th-century analytic philosophy, aesthetics, the philosophy of education, the European phenomenological tradition, and Kierkegaard. I'm currently writing a thesis on the question, disputed by P. F. Strawson, A. J. Ayer, J. J. Gibson and others, of how best to characterize and understand the "data" of perception.

My literary interests lie mainly in American poetry, British Romantic poetry, 20th-century (especially pre-1945) fiction, Shakespeare, Milton, literary/critical theory, and archival research. In 2014, I wrote a thesis on several serial poems by the poet George Oppen and his interest--in many little-examined archival notes--in the "process philosophy," so called, of Whitehead, Dewey, James, Bergson, and others.