I currently teach Ethics in a Global Society at Southern New Hampshire University. Previously, I held a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy appointment in the Department of Philosophy, Classics, and the Humanities at The University of Texas at San Antonio. I completed my PhD at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2022.
My research focuses on the first-person point of view of experiencing agents both in philosophy of mind (specifically the relationship between intentionality and consciousness), and issues in biomedical ethics pertaining to reproductive ethics and personhood.
Regarding the former, I investigate the relationship betw…
I currently teach Ethics in a Global Society at Southern New Hampshire University. Previously, I held a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy appointment in the Department of Philosophy, Classics, and the Humanities at The University of Texas at San Antonio. I completed my PhD at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2022.
My research focuses on the first-person point of view of experiencing agents both in philosophy of mind (specifically the relationship between intentionality and consciousness), and issues in biomedical ethics pertaining to reproductive ethics and personhood.
Regarding the former, I investigate the relationship between consciousness and intentionality, and I defend a mereological model of the Phenomenal Intentionality Theory, which claims that the phenomenal and the intentional are related by being proper parts of an agential-first-personal, subjective mental event. And I explore how a first-personal, subjective metaphysics of mental events best explains the phenomenology of temporal experience.
Regarding the latter, I am interested in the first-person, normative reasons that agents experience when facing various choice points in life. For instance, by exploring our phenomenology of agency and normativity, I aim to show that many important questions regarding reproduction are best understood in terms of an agent’s normative reasons. To this end, I argue that moral issues relating to artificial womb technology and reproduction help reveal just how deeply our understanding of ourselves as agents with normative reasons is rooted in and cannot be divorced from the social context and systems in which our agency and normative reasons are embedded.
Additionally, I am interested an eclectic range of philosophic issues in metaphysics, epistemology, self-knowledge, philosophy of psychology, cognitive science, and philosophical problems related to the alleged non-epistemic values in medicine and science.
