I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Lone Star College in Houston, TX. I completed my B.A. in philosophy at the University of Houston-Downtown in 2015, my M.A. in philosophy at the University of Houston in 2017, and my Ph.D. in philosophy at the University at Albany, SUNY in 2022. I am also the current Philpapers.org area editor for Popular Music and the current Secretary of the Rocky Mountain Division of the American Society for Aesthetics.
My primary area of research is in the philosophy of art and aesthetics. I am especially interested in the ways that genres function as social and aesthetic practices. Within t…
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Lone Star College in Houston, TX. I completed my B.A. in philosophy at the University of Houston-Downtown in 2015, my M.A. in philosophy at the University of Houston in 2017, and my Ph.D. in philosophy at the University at Albany, SUNY in 2022. I am also the current Philpapers.org area editor for Popular Music and the current Secretary of the Rocky Mountain Division of the American Society for Aesthetics.
My primary area of research is in the philosophy of art and aesthetics. I am especially interested in the ways that genres function as social and aesthetic practices. Within these practices, participants can take on new internal ethical norms, generate novel practical identities, and develop their own aesthetic predicates. This work has so far focused mainly on issues in philosophy of music and internet aesthetics. I also try to pay special attention to the ways in which this work could or should be informed by cognitive science, and the ways in which theorizing in the philosophy of art might help resolve issues in music cognition and neuroaesthetics. Outside of this, I also have research interests in applied ethics (relating to the ethics of art, artificial intelligence, and honor), philosophy of mind/cognitive science, and 19th and 20th century continental philosophy.
