Employment

• Senior Instructional Designer, 2022–Present
  Purdue University
  West Lafayette, IN

• Lecturer, 2021—Present
  Department of Philosophy
  Purdue University

• Instructional Designer, 2020—2021
  Purdue University

Areas of Specialization

• Metaphysics
• Philosophical Logic

Areas of Competence

• Philosophy of Religion

• Professional Ethics

Education

• Ph.D.
  Department of Philosophy
  The Ohio State University
  Columbus, OH
• M.A., Philosophy, 2013
  Virginia Tech
  Blacksburg, VA
• B.A., Philosophy, 2011
  B.S., Information Technology Management, 2011
  Bethel College
  Mishawaka, IN

Certifications

• Agile Project Management Certificate
  College of Engineering, Purdue University
• Entry Level Programing in Python
  College of Engineering, Purdue University

 

Publications

• forthcoming. "Transitivity When the Same are Distinct," Erkenntnis.

• July 2021. “The Value of Group Work.” Graduate Student Reflection Series, Blog of the American Philosophical Association.

In Progress

• In this article I argue that if Indeterminate Identity solves Thesus' Ship, then any changes in parts is enough for an indeterminate identity.

• In this article I argue that temporary and contingent identity relations are transitive relations, despite proposed counterexamples.

 

Presentations

• 2022. "Building and Delivering an Online Course: Student, Faculty, Course Developer Perspectives." Fort Wayne Teaching and Learning Conference, with Shannon Bischoff, Nathan Jarboe, and Alyssa Sherman

• 2021. “Pluralisms from Possibilities.” Eastern APA.

 

Teaching

Experience

• Lecturer
  Purdue University, 2021–Present:
  • The Big Questions: Introduction to Philosophy
• Graduate Teaching Associate, 2016–19
  The Ohio State University
  Sole Instructor For:

  • Introduction to Philosophy

  • Philosophy of Religion

  • Introduction to Logic

  • Introduction to Logic (Online)

  • Engineering Ethics

• Graduate Teaching Associate, 2014–16
  The Ohio State University
  Recitations & Grading For:

  • Asian Philosophies

  • Philosophical Problems in the Arts

  • Philosophy of Religion

  • Symbolic Logic

• Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2011–13
  Virginia Tech
  Recitations & Grading For:

  • Knowledge & Reality

  • Ethics & Morality

  • Logic & Critical Thinking

Invited Lectures

• On Rawls’ A Theory of Justice, Nov. 2019
  Contemporary Moral Problems
  Otterbein University
  Westerville, OH

• Co-taught topics in Ethics & Philosophy of Religion, Spring 2019
  Theory of Knowledge (International Baccalaureate)
  Columbus Alternative High School
  Columbus, OH

Coursework in Education

• Teaching Philosophy

• Course Design in Higher Education

• College Teaching

• Teaching Adults Online

Faculty Mentorship

• Preparing Future Faculty, Autumn 2019
  The Graduate School, Ohio State
  Mentor: Stephanie Patridge
  Chair and Professor of Philosophy
  Otterbein University

 

Awards

• Excellence in Online Course Design and Teaching, Purdue University, 2022
• Bravo Award, Purdue Online, 2021
• Distinguished University Fellow, Ohio State, 2019–20, 2013–14

 

Comments

• Commentary on Juan Garcia’s “Reid on Character, Power and Possibility,” Ohio State, Mini Conference: Free Will in Early Modern Philosophy, April 2014

• Commentary on Derek Green’s “Simplicity and Abstract Objects: A Note on the Epistemology of Meta- physics,” Virginia Tech Graduate Conference, Nov. 2012

 

Service

• Editor, “Vague Identity” sub-category, PhilPapers, Nov. 2019–Present
• Referee, American Philosophical Quarterly
• Presenter, Teaching Logic Workshop, Department of Philosophy, Ohio State Nov. 2019
• Reviewer for proposal of The Norton Introduction to Philosophy of Religion, 1st Ed., 2018

 

Graduate Coursework

Metaphysics

• Metaphysics of Propositions

• Metaphysics of Gender, Race, & Disability

• Fictional Realism

• Metaphysics of Space & Time

• David Lewis (audit)

Logic

• Non-Classical Logic
• Modal Logic
• Computability
• Applications of Proof Theory

Science, Mind, & Language

• Philosophy of Cognitive Science
• Philosophy of Science
• Philosophy of Mind
• Natural Language Metaphysics

History

• Kant’s First Critique
• Wittgenstein
• Frege
• Free Will in Modern Philosophy

Value & Political Philosophy

• Rawls
• Consequentialism

 

Memberships

• American Philosophical Association
• American Association of Philosophy Teachers