Education & Training
- PhD, 2011, Philosophy, University of California, Santa Barbara
- C. Phil, Philosophy, University of California, Santa Barbara
- M.A., Philosophy, California State University, Long Beach
- B.A., Philosophy, UCLA
Research Interests
Kant, philosophical ethics, metaphysics of mind, persons, and moral agency; Kagan-style normative ethics and foundational theories of normative ethics; philosophy of cognitive neuroscience; business ethics, Non-Western philosophy, philosophical anthropology, the philosophy of law; philosophically-informed literary studies in English Literature
PHILOSOPHICAL METHODOLOGY
Let us abandon the notion of perfect simplicity in concepts; let us abandon even the notion that analysis must always be in the direction of greater simplicity. Let us imagine, instead, the model of an elaborate network, a system, of connected items, concepts, such that the function of each item, each concept, could . . . be properly understood only by grasping its connections with the others . . . If this becomes our model, then there will be no reason to be worried if, in the process of tracing connections from one point to another of the network, we find ourselves returning to, or passing through, our starting-point.
--Sir Peter Strawson, Analysis and Metaphysics
