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Professor of Philosophy, Rhode Island College, 2023-
Assistant Chair, Philosophy Department, 2025-
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Rhode Island College, 2019-2023
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Rhode Island College, 2015-2019
Visiting Fellow, Philosophy Department, Australian National University, June-August, 2022
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Spring, 2022
Visiting Scholar, Philosophy Department, University of California-Irvine, January 2022
Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Virginia, 2010-2015
M.A. in Philosophy, Georgia State University, 2008-2010
B.S. in Philosophy and Psychology, Westmont College, 2003-2007
Areas of Specialty: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology
Areas of Competence: Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Psychology, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Logic
Book:
Present to the Mind: Acquaintance and Its Significance (forthcoming, Oxford University Press).
Articles:
"We Are Not Self Made," Erkenntnis (forthcoming).
"Getting Acquainted with Art: Aesthetics and Knowledge of Things," (with Hannah Nahas) in L. Campbell (ed.) Forms of Knowledge, Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
“What Self-Acquaintance Says About Us,” in M. Nida-Rümelin, J. Bugnon, and D. O’Conaill (eds.) The Phenomenology of Self-Awareness and Conscious Subjects, Routledge (forthcoming).
"Animalists on the Run," Inquiry, 67, 10 (2024): 3,835-3,845.
"I Feel Your Pain: Acquaintance and the Limits of Empathy," (with Emad Atiq) Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind 3 (2024): 277-308.
"Reasoning with Knowledge of Things," Philosophical Psychology 36, 2, (2023): 270-291.
"Suppose We Know Things," Episteme 20, 2 (2023): 308-323.
"How You Know You're Conscious: Illusionism and Knowledge of Things," Review of Philosophy and Psychology 14, 1 (2023): 185-205.
"Externalists Should Be Sense-Datum Theorists," Journal of the American Philosophical Association 8, 2 (2022): 338-355.
"Animalism is Either False or Uninteresting (Perhaps Both)," American Philosophical Quarterly 58, 2 (2021): 187-200.
"Acquaintance," Philosophy Compass 16, 3 (2021): 1-19.
"Experience is Knowledge," Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind, 1 (2021): 106-129.
"Knowledge of Things," Synthese 197, 8 (2020): 3,559-3,592.
"A New Argument for the Phenomenal Approach to Personal Persistence," Philosophical Studies 177, 7 (2020): 2,031-2,049.
"A Renewed Challenge to Anti-Criterialism," Erkenntnis 85, 1 (2020): 165-182.
"The Self Shows Up in Experience," Review of Philosophy and Psychology 10, 2 (2019): 299-318.
"Propositions Are Not Simple," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 97, 2 (2018): 351-366.
"Subjectivity as Self-Acquaintance," Journal of Consciousness Studies 25, 3-4 (2018): 88-111.
"What It's Like To Have a Cognitive Home," European Journal of Philosophy 26, 1 (2018): 66-81.
"Two Russellian Arguments for Acquaintance,' Australasian Journal of Philosophy 95, 3 (2017): 461-474.
"Dualists Needn't Be Anti-Criterialists (Nor Should They Be)," Philosophical Studies 174, 4 (2017): 945-963.
"I Think, Therefore I Persist," Australasian Journal of Philosophy 93, 4 (2015): 740-756.
"We Are Acquainted With Ourselves," Philosophical Studies 172, 9 (2015): 2,531-2,549.
"Consumerism, Aristotle, and Fantastic Mr. Fox," Film-Philosophy 19 (2015): 249-269.
"A Challenge to Anti-Criterialism," Erkenntnis 79, 2 (2014): 283-296.
Reviews and Commentaries:
“Comments on Charles Siewert’s ‘Is Pre-Reflective Consciousness Self-Consciousness’” in M. Nida-Rümelin, J. Bugnon, and D. O’Conaill (eds.) The Phenomenology of Self-Awareness and Conscious Subjects, Routledge (forthcoming).
"Review of Stephan Blatti and Paul F. Snowdon (eds.) Animalism: New Essays on Persons, Animals, and Identity," Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2017).
TBD
The University of Colorado, Boulder, Sept. 2025*
"The Value of Conscious Acquaintance"
LanCog Summer Metaphysics Workshop, Lisbon, June 2025*
Rice Value of Consciousness Conference, Paris, March 2025*
"A New Acquaintance Theory of Introspection"
University of Valencia (Spain), May 2025*
"Groups are Aesthetically and Morally Alienated" (with Sharon Casu)
"The Value of Consciousness" series, April 2025* (Zoom)
New England Workshop on Metaphysics, Oct. 2024*
"Singularity and Acquaintance"
"Being Singular" Series, March 2025* (Zoom)
"Acquaintance is Epistemically Significant"
MIT ERG Reading Group, Dec. 2024*
"Be My Neighbor"
University of Notre Dame, Nov. 2024*
Book Symposium on Present to the Mind: Acquaintance and Its Significance
University of Fribourg, Aug. 2024*
Round Table Discussion on Acquaintance (with Emad Atiq, David Chalmers, Anna Giustina, Uriah Kriegel, and Jacopo Pallagrosi)
World Congress of Philosophy, Rome, Aug. 2024
"The Acquaintance Theory of Introspection: Its Metaphysics and Mysteries"
University of Valencia (Spain), June 2024*
"We Are Not Self-Made"
Chinese University of Hong Kong, June 2024*
Australian Catholic University, Aug. 2022*
University of Sydney, Aug. 2022*
"Strong Acquaintance Exists"
Institute for Advanced Studies, Pavia, Italy, June 2023* (Zoom)
"Consciousness as a Cross-Temporal Tapestry"
University of Fribourg, May 2023*
University of Mississippi, April 2023*
SoCal Metaphysics Network, March 2023*
"For They Shall See Good"
University of Liege, Nov. 2022*
London Mind Group, Nov. 2022*
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Oct. 2022* (Zoom)
"Three Arguments for Inner Awareness"
Australian National University, July 2022*
University of Fribourg, Jan. 2022* (Zoom)
"Getting Acquainted with Art"
Cornell University, May 2022*
University of Warwick, Oct. 2021* (with Hannah Nahas) (Zoom)
Comments:
On Dean Zimmerman's "Divine Location and the Inheritance of Spatial Structure"
Ranch Metaphysics Workshop, January, 2024.
On Ned Markosian's "Novels and Symphonies as Concrete Artifacts"
Ranch Metaphysics Workshop, January, 2023.
New England Workshop on Metaphysics, 2017-
Special extended edition co-organized with Sharon Casu, 2024
Cornell Workshop on Mind and Value (with Emad Atiq), 2022-
Vice-Chair, Council of Rhode Island College, 2025-
Assistant Chair, Philosophy Department, Rhode Island College, 2025-
Member, Executive Committee, Council of Rhode Island College, 2022-2024; 2025-
Mentor for New Faculty, Rhode Island College, 2023-