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49Midwifery and Epistemic Virtue in the TheaetetusEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 27 (1): 1-18. 2022.The Theaetetus’s midwife metaphor contains a puzzling feature, often referred to as the “midwife paradox”: the physical midwives must have first given birth to their own children in order to have the necessary experience to practice their art. Socrates, however, seems to disavow having any children of his own and thus appears to be unqualified to practice philosophical midwifery. In this paper, I aim to dissolve the midwife paradox by arguing that it rests on problematic assumptions, namely, tha…Read more
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30Communal recognition and human flourishing: a Kierkegaardian accountInternational Journal of Philosophy and Theology 83 (1): 64-78. 2022.Recent debates over the role of recognition by the community for one’s development and flourishing generally discuss community in a univocal sense: the way that recognition functions in particular communities is not fundamentally different from the way it functions in the larger community. They also tend to logically prioritize a fundamental human identity over particular religious, ethnic, or societal identities, which are understood to be secondary to, and derivative of, this basic identity. I…Read more
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122Zen Buddhism and the Phenomenology of MysticismJournal for Continental Philosophy of Religion 3 (2): 123-143. 2021.In this paper, I use a comparative analysis of mysticism in Zen and the Abrahamic faiths to formulate a phenomenological account of mysticism “as such.” I argue that, while Zen Buddhism is distinct from other forms of mystical experience in important ways, it can still be fit into a general phenomenological category of mystical experience. First, I explicate the phenomenological accounts of mysticism provided by Anthony Steinbock and Angela Bello. Second, I offer an account of Zen mysticism whic…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
19th Century Philosophy |
Philosophy of Religion |
Value Theory |
20th Century Continental Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Continental Philosophy |
History of Western Philosophy |
Asian Philosophy |
Epistemology |