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Academic Employment

Professor of Philosophy, Rhode Island College, 2023-

Associate Professor of Philosophy, Rhode Island College, 2019-2023

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Rhode Island College, 2015-2019

Visiting Appointments

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

Education

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 Interest

Areas of Specialty: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology

Areas of Competence: Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Psychology, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Logic

Publications

1. "Getting Acquainted with Art: Aesthetics and Knowledge of Things," (with Hannah Nahas) in L. Campbell (ed.) Forms of Knowledge, Oxford University Press (forthcoming).

2. "I Feel Your Pain: Acquaintance and the Limits of Empathy," (with Emad Atiq) Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind (forthcoming).

3. “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).

4. "Animalists on the Run," Inquiry (forthcoming).

5. "Reasoning with Knowledge of Things," Philosophical Psychology (forthcoming).

6. "Suppose We Know Things," Episteme 20, 2 (2023): 308-323.

7. "How You Know You're Conscious: Illusionism and Knowledge of Things," Review of Philosophy and Psychology 14, 1 (2023): 185-205.

8. "Externalists Should Be Sense-Datum Theorists," Journal of the American Philosophical Association 8, 2 (2022): 338-355.

9. "Animalism is Either False or Uninteresting (Perhaps Both)," American Philosophical Quarterly 58, 2 (2021): 187-200.

10. "Acquaintance," Philosophy Compass 16, 3 (2021): 1-19.

11. "Experience is Knowledge," Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind, 1 (2021): 106-129.

12. "Knowledge of Things," Synthese 197, 8 (2020): 3,559-3,592.

13. "A New Argument for the Phenomenal Approach to Personal Persistence," Philosophical Studies 177, 7 (2020): 2,031-2,049.

14. "A Renewed Challenge to Anti-Criterialism," Erkenntnis 85, 1 (2020): 165-182.

15. "The Self Shows Up in Experience," Review of Philosophy and Psychology 10, 2 (2019): 299-318.

16. "Propositions Are Not Simple," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 97, 2 (2018): 351-366.

17. "Subjectivity as Self-Acquaintance," Journal of Consciousness Studies 25, 3-4 (2018): 88-111.

18. "What It's Like To Have a Cognitive Home," European Journal of Philosophy 26, 1 (2018): 66-81.

19. "Two Russellian Arguments for Acquaintance,' Australasian Journal of Philosophy 95, 3 (2017): 461-474.

20. "Dualists Needn't Be Anti-Criterialists (Nor Should They Be)," Philosophical Studies 174, 4 (2017): 945-963.

21. "I Think, Therefore I Persist," Australasian Journal of Philosophy 93, 4 (2015): 740-756.

22. "We Are Acquainted With Ourselves," Philosophical Studies 172, 9 (2015): 2,531-2,549.

23. "Consumerism, Aristotle, and Fantastic Mr. Fox," Film-Philosophy 19 (2015): 249-269.

24.  "A Challenge to Anti-Criterialism," Erkenntnis 79, 2 (2014): 283-296.

Reviews and Commentaries:

1. “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).

2. "Review of Stephan Blatti and Paul F. Snowdon (eds.) Animalism: New Essays on Persons, Animals, and Identity," Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2017).

Recent and Upcoming Presentations (*=Invited)

• "Groups are Aesthetically and Morally Alienated" (with Sharon Casu), "

  • • "The Value of Consciousness" series, May 2025* (Zoom)

    • New England Workshop on Metaphysics, Oct. 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.

Selected Honors and Awards

• Exceptional Performance Salary Increase Award, Rhode Island College, 2021

• “Major” Research Grant, Rhode Island College, 2021

• Course Development Grant, Science-Engaged Theology initiative, University of St. Andrews, 2020

• McNair Service Award, McNair Program for Underrepresented Students, 2019

• "Most Valuable Professor," Rhode Island College, 2019 (Teaching award from student athletes)

• Aristotle Award, Rhode Island College, 2017 (Awarded, by vote of the RIC philosophy majors and minors, to one philosophy faculty member "who best provided a rigorous and engaging philosophical education ... who aptly facilitated students' continued growth in philosophical understanding and provided an exceptional atmosphere for student education.")

• Socrates Award, Rhode Island College, 2016 (Awarded, by vote of the RIC philosophy majors and minors, to one philosophy faculty member "who inspired students the most in philosophy ... because of his/her exceptional ability to ignite a passion for philosophy that students otherwise may not have exhibited.")

Selected Professional Activity

• Organizer, New England Workshop on Metaphysics, 2017-

  • • Special extended edition co-organized with Sharon Casu, 2024

• Co-Organizer (with Emad Atiq), Cornell Workshop on Mind and Value, 2022-