The ancient Greek skeptical tradition serves as the guiding theme of my research, which extends across the history of philosophy while intersecting various subfields within the discipline. The majority of my work has fallen into one of the following three categories:
(1) The interpretation and assessment of the Pyrrhonism of Sextus Empiricus
(2) Investigation of ancient Greek skepticism’s role in shaping the course of modern Western philosophy (from Montaigne to the present-day)
(3) Skepticism as a problem in contemporary epistemology, with special emphasis on how insights drawn from the ancient skeptical tradition can advance discussions …
The ancient Greek skeptical tradition serves as the guiding theme of my research, which extends across the history of philosophy while intersecting various subfields within the discipline. The majority of my work has fallen into one of the following three categories:
(1) The interpretation and assessment of the Pyrrhonism of Sextus Empiricus
(2) Investigation of ancient Greek skepticism’s role in shaping the course of modern Western philosophy (from Montaigne to the present-day)
(3) Skepticism as a problem in contemporary epistemology, with special emphasis on how insights drawn from the ancient skeptical tradition can advance discussions in that field
I earned a B.A. in History & Philosophy from the University of New Hampshire in 2006, an M.A. in Philosophy from Stanford University in 2010, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 2019, a few months before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world.
