I'm a philosopher working at the intersection of science, the process of thought, and social life. The questions that drive me are around reasoning, agency, and the way our social lives fit together into a larger whole that takes on a life of its own.  That orientation — the concern for how the large picture fits together with the small — runs through everything I have done as a philosopher: from my work in the philosophy of physics, decision science, and even the philosophy of logic, to my work in phenomenology and social ontology. Formal theories of the world we inhabit cannot be the final word; so I aim at illuminating how life is actually experienced under the constraints we confront as humans in a specific context and epoch of the earth. 

I'm a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a member of UT's Foundational AI cluster. In 2024–25 I held the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities at the University of Guelph. Visit my PhilPeople and Research pages (from the links above) to see and download some of my work.  Much of it, including my recent book Reasoning in the Wild (linked from the card below) is published Open Access.