About Me

I am associate professor in the Department of Philosophy, 2022–24 McKnight Land-Grant Professor, affiliate faculty in the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic, and Dutch and the Center for Early Modern History, as well as a resident fellow at the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, all at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. 

I earned my PhD in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine in 2014. After that, I was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at University of Salzburg and spent one year as assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at University of Central Arkansas. During the 2019–2020 academic year, I was Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in the Seminar for Philosophy at Martin Luther University in Halle, Germany.

Much of my work has concerned conceptions of nature in the early modern period, especially as informed by (what we'd now identify as) scientific practice of the day. My two main foci have been Immanuel Kant and Margaret Cavendish. These days, in addition to these projects, I've been thinking more about the philosophy of contemporary conservation science — especially conceptual issues related to the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems and the IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology — and the history of 20th century philosophy of science — particularly the history of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science.

Feel free to peruse my website and to check out my PhilPeople profile! You can contact me via email (mcnu0074 -at- umn.edu) with any questions or comments. I'd happily send copies of my papers if you can't otherwise access them!