Research

Here is my academic CV

My current research concerns epistemological and ontological issues in the history and philosophy of science and early modern period. Specifically, I compare and analyze questions such as: what methods are used in arriving at scientific knowledge as opposed to mathematical knowledge? What were hypotheses and when did they become knowledge or part of a theory? What were the aims of these methods (probability, certainty, or something else)? I focus on the answers to these questions that figures like Newton, Du Châtelet, and Leibniz have provided.

From UIC's Cassirer Collection, a 1664 ed. of Descartes' La Geometrie (with H. Cavendish ownership stamp).

Ralph Cudworth's slam-dunk of a book title.

For July 2026, I will present my paper "Du Châtelet on Newton's Method: The Cases of Universal Gravity and Geodesy" at the 25th Princeton–Nuremberg–Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy.

For June 2026, my paper "Revisiting Newton’s ‘Probabilism’" has been accepted for presentation at HOPOS 2026, to be held at Ohio State University.

For May 2026, I will be presenting my paper "Experiential Learning in the Early Modern Classroom" at the 10th anniversary of TEMPO in San Francisco!

For May 2026, I was invited to participate in my first unconference!: Open-Air Learning: An Unconference on Teaching Outdoors in Higher Education at Elon University.

For March 2026, I will presenting a poster version of my paper "Expertise and Membership in the Early Royal Society" at the University of Notre Dame HPS annual conference on Science, Expertise, and Society.

In February 2026, I'll be chairing the colloquium session "Leibniz, the Duality of Probability, and the Principle of Sufficient Reason" at the Central APA.

In January 2026, I presented my paper "Revisiting Newton's 'Probabilism'" at the Hopkins Seminar in Early and Late Modern Philosophy.

In January 2026, I commented on Frank Hu's paper on Samuel Clarke, the PSR, and the Identity of Indiscernibles at the Eastern APA.

For summer and fall of 2025, I used the APA Berry Fund in Public Philosophy to host a series of "Philosophy in Nature" sessions. Details here!: http://bit.ly/philnat

In June 2025, I attended the University of Minnesota's 2025 Summer Program at the Center for Canon Expansion and Change.

In May 2025, I attended the Strong Start Teaching Institute at GVSU.

In April 2025, I presented my project "Reason and Resistance in Sor Juana" at the Traveling Early Modern Philosophy Organization (TEMPO) Conference, to be held at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

In March 2025, I presented my paper "Du Châtelet on Newton's Method: The Cases of Universal Gravity and Geodesy" at the Émilie Du Châtelet's Theoretical Philosophy in Context Conference in Dublin, Ireland.

I'll be working on a commissioned chapter for Bloomsbury Press tentatively titled "Benjamin Franklin and Eugenio María de Hostos on Virtues".

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