Education
Syracuse University, Ph.D., Philosophy, Received August 2007
William Paterson College, B.A./M.A., English Literature, 1992/1995
Areas
AOS: Metaphysics/Ontology
AOC: Philosophy of Mind, Early Modern, Logic, Epistemology, Ethics
Academic Positions
Assistant Professor, West Texas A & M University, 2008 - present
Visiting Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University, 2007 - 2008
Visiting Faculty, UC Santa Cruz, 2004 - 2005
Visiting Faculty, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, 2002-04
Visiting Instructor, Miami University, Ohio, Spr 2002
Teaching Associate, Syracuse University, 1996-2001
Teaching Assistant, Syracuse University, 1995-96
Courses Taught
Formal Logic (TTU)
Possibility and Necessity* (TTU)
Environmental Ethics (TTU)
Paradoxes, Puzzles and Conundrums (UCSC)
Personal Identity* (UCSC)
History of Consciousness* (UCSC)
Medical Ethics(UA, UCSC)
Plato's Republic (SU)
Introduction to Ethics(MU, UA, UCSC, TTU)
Introduction to Philosophy (SU, MU, UA, UCSC, TTU)
(* Graduate Level)
Publications
"A Neglected Issue in the 3D/4D Debate," forthcoming in Philosophical Studies.
"Recombination, Humean Supervenience and Causal Constraints: an Argument for Temporal Parts?," with J. Hawthorne and R. Wasserman, in D. Zimmerman (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). Reprinted in J. Hawthorne, Metaphysical Essays (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
"Homogeneous Simples," in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 64(2): 393-97.
"Seeing and Demonstration," with John Hawthorne, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 61(1): 199-06.
References
John Hawthorne, Oxford University
Theodore Sider, New York University
Dean Zimmerman, Rutgers University