About

I'm an Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Co-Director of the Columbia Character Cooperatives at Columbia University, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. 

Before coming to Columbia I was Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the US Air Force Academy, Visiting Fellow in Ethics & Politics at the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele (Milan), Postdoctoral Researcher at Baylor University, and the Arete Professorial Fellow at Hillsdale College.

I completed my Ph.D. in philosophy at Florida State University. While studying there, I was awarded a Templeton Graduate Cross-Training Fellowship to pursue empirical research in the form of a M.Sc. in cognitive and evolutionary anthropology at the University of Oxford.

My primary areas of specialization are ethics and and philosophy of science. I'm interested in the metaphysics of goodness, virtue ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of biology, bioethics, and evolutionary anthropology.

I also play the oud (look it up!) and I love English Premier League football.!