I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Emory & Henry College in Southwest Virginia. I have also taught at the University of Missouri and Cornell University.
I work on ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. My main project right now examines the physics and metaphysics of the Hellenistic Stoics. The Stoics were physicalists, panentheists, and metaphysical foundationalists. I try to work out exactly how they combined those views. Here's a problem: we don't have any complete, original Stoic treatises. So I also defend a "functionalist" interpretive methodology for sorting out the secondhand sources that report the Stoics' views.
Film, ficti…
I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Emory & Henry College in Southwest Virginia. I have also taught at the University of Missouri and Cornell University.
I work on ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. My main project right now examines the physics and metaphysics of the Hellenistic Stoics. The Stoics were physicalists, panentheists, and metaphysical foundationalists. I try to work out exactly how they combined those views. Here's a problem: we don't have any complete, original Stoic treatises. So I also defend a "functionalist" interpretive methodology for sorting out the secondhand sources that report the Stoics' views.
Film, fiction, music, fitness, sports, and dogs take up my non-philosophy time.
