I am a senior lecturer in philosophy at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. I received my PhD in June of 2018 from University of California, Riverside. My primary research interests are ethics, philosophy of action, and epistemology. Most of my work concerns the nature and origins of normativity, both practical and epistemic, and its relationship to agency and the mind. I am also interested in applied ethics, particularly environmental ethics, bioethics, and military ethics.
My dissertation defended a version of constitutivism, the view that morality is grounded in features constitutive of our agency.
I took all pictures on this website using my now broken LG G4 cell phone on a backpacking trip I took with my father in 2016 along the Pacific Crest Trail.