Academic Positions

Associate Adjunct Professor—Austin Community College (2015-2022)

Adjunct Professor—Central Texas College (2019-2021)

Associate Professor—Colorado Technical University (2019-2020)

Instructor—Texas A&M University-San Antonio (2017-2018)

Lecturer—Texas State University (2015-2017)

Adjunct Instructor—Sam Houston State University (2015-2016)

Graduate Instructor—Texas A&M University-College Station (2008-2015)

Graduate Assistant—University of Memphis (2006-2008)

Undergraduate Assistant—SUNY Stony Brook (2004-2006)

Education

Certified Logic-Based Consultant—Florida State University

Ph.D., Philosophy—Texas A&M University (2015)

M.A., English—Texas A&M University (2013)

M.A., Philosophy—University of Memphis (2008)

B.A., Philosophy/English—SUNY Stony Brook (Honors/Distinction, magna cum laude) (2006)

Primary Interests

Early Modern Philosophy (esp. Spinoza)

Metaphysics (esp. properties)

Creative Writing (esp. poetry)

Books

Spinoza and the Problem of Universals: A Study and Research Guide, Texas A&M University (Dissertation) (2015).

An Unopinionated Introduction to Philosophy. Beacon, New York: Safe Space Press (2021).

Peer-Reviewed Publications

“In Homage to Descartes and Spinoza: A Cosmo-Ontological Case for God.” The Philosophical Forum 52.1 (2021). 41-64.

“A Rationalist Defense of Determinism.” Theoria 87.2 (2021). 394-434.

“The Sufficiency of Spinozistic Attributes for their Finite Modes.” Síntesis: Revista de Filosofía 4.1 (2021). 133-155.

“Is Chaucer Rejecting Predestination in Troilus and Criseyde?” Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (2020).

“Spinoza’s Bundle Analysis of Substances Having Attributes.” InCircolo: Rivista di Filosofia e Culture 9 (2020). 137-185.

“Tarzan on Guard Around Black Men.” Kritikos: Journal of Postmodern Cultural Sound, Text, and Image 14 (2017).

“The Manner of Blackness in Nella Larsen’s Passing.” Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 100.2 (2017). 112-142.

“Es la respuesta de Aristóteles al argumento de fatalismo en De Interpretatione 9 exitosa?” / “Is Aristotle’s Response to the Argument for Fatalism in De Interpretatione 9 Successful?” Ideas y Valores 63.155 (2014). 31-58.

“Gould Talking Past Dawkins on the Unit of Selection Issue.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 44.3 (2013). 327-335.

“Análisis nominalista de una entidad que está siendo caracterizada” / “Nominalist Analyses of an Entity Being Charactered.” Discusiones Filosóficas 21 (2012, July-December). 87-93.

“A Small Aid for Kooser Research,” Midwestern Miscellany 40 (2012, Fall). 54-77. Reprinted in Weight of the Weather: Regarding the Poetry of Ted Kooser. Ed. M. Sanders. Stephen F. Austin University Press (2017). 299-326.

“The Link between Berkeley’s Refutation of Abstraction and his Refutation of Materialism.” Methodus 6.1 (2011). 78-105.

“Concerning the Possibility of Exactly Similar Tropes.” Abstracta 6.2 (2011). 158-177.

“Concerning the Resilience of Galen Strawson’s Basic Argument.” Philosophical Studies 155.3 (2011). 399-420.