Welcome
Thanks for visiting my website. I am an academic philosopher currently teaching at the University of Arizona.
If you're looking for information about my teaching or academic research, then you've come to the right place.
I am an Assistant Professor of Practice with a joint appointment between the W.A. Franke Honors College and the Philosophy Department at the University of Arizona. I primarily teach ethics courses that contribute to various honors programs, such as the Health and Human Values Minor, the Future Earth Resilience Minor, and the Civic Leadership Certificate. If you're a student or just want to get a sense of what I do in the classroom, please visit my Teaching page. I also conduct research in applied philosophy and assist graduate students in the philosophy department with their preparations for the academic job market.
My most significant academic work is The Environmental Impact of Overpopulation: The Ethics of Procreation. You can get an overview of that book in a subsection of the Research page along with some other topics I am currently working on. Published and forthcoming articles, book chapters, and book reviews can be found on the Publications page. (You may need a PDF reader like Adobe Reader or Foxit Reader to view them.) If you want to get a broader overview of what I have worked on in the past, you may want to consult my current Curriculum Vitae or view some of my media appearances on the Media page.
The biggest recent addition to the site is 7 Years Later: Surviving Graduaate School in Philosophy. It is designed to be a comprehensive guide to graduate school in philosophy and combines information from hundreds of blog posts and other sources published in the last 15 years with my own perspective on graduate studies. My hope is that this document will prove useful to current graduate students in philosophy who are trying to figure out how to complete their programs and also be competitive for academic jobs when their studies conclude.
