Biography

I work primarily in 18th- and 19th-Century European Philosophy, with particular interest in Kant, German Idealism, and Kierkegaard. I have additional research and teaching interests in early modern philosophy and ethics.

Education (4)

University of Notre Dame: Ph. D., Philosophy 2015

University of Copenhagen Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre: Visiting Researcher 2013

Fordham University: M. A., Philosophy 2010

Texas A&M University: B. A., Philosophy 2007

Areas of Expertise and Research Interests (4)

19th Century European Philosophy

Kant

20th Century European Philosophy

Ethics

Links (2)

• Academia Page
• Department of Philosophy

Presentations and Event Appearances (11)

Rethinking the Highest Good: Kierkegaard on God, Virtue, and (This-Worldly) Happiness

Conference on Kant and the Possibility of Progress, Boston College  2018

Hitting Rock Bottom: David Foster Wallace on the Rationality of Conversion (and Transformative Teaching)

Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society  2017

Kierkegaard on What you Can (and Cannot) Expect From Faith

Søren Kierkegaard Society, Pacific APA  2017

Reviving the No-Bad-Action Problem in Kant's Ethics

Midwest Study Group of the North American Kant Society  2016

Kant and the Problem of Moral Conversion

Southern Study Group of the North American Kant Society  2015

Kierkegaard on the Relationship between Faith and Belief

Conference on "The Redemption of Feeling" in the Religious Existentialists, Queens College, Flushing, NY  2015

On valuing the means to one’s ends: a challenge argument for constructivist ethical theories

Illinois Philosophical Association (Special plenary session with response by Sharon Street.)  2012

Is Foot an immoralist?

Pacific APA (Main Program)  2012

Kant’s theory of taste

United Kingdom Kant Society  2011

Rethinking Kant's Theory of Taste

Southern Study Group of the North American Kant Society  2011

The contingency of evil: rethinking the problem of universal evil in Kant’s "Religion"

Southern Study Group of the North American Kant Society  2010

Select Articles, Chapters, Reviews, and Other Publications (17)

Value Transformation in Fichte, Hegel and Kierkegaard

Manuscript due 2019

(Contracted, Routledge)

The Routledge Guidebook to Kierkegaard’s "Either/Or"

Manuscript due 2018

(Contracted, Routledge)

Kant’s Subjective Deduction: A Reappraisal

European Journal of Philosophy

(Forthcoming)

The Role of Imagination in Kierkegaard's Account of Ethical Transformation

Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie

(Forthcoming)

Did Napoleon Teleologically Suspend the Ethical? A Dilemma for Some ‘Hegelian’ Readings of "Fear and Trembling"

The Kierkegaardian Mind

Routledge

(Forthcoming)

Kierkegaard on the (Un)happiness of Faith

British Journal for the History of Philosophy

with M. Mullaney

2017

Revisiting Kant's Deduction of Taste

History of Philosophy Quarterly

2017

How to Become an Idealist: Fichte on the Transition from Dogmatism to Idealism

British Journal for the History of Philosophy

2017

The Self-Transformation Puzzle

Res Philosophica

2015

Johanes de silentio: Religious Poet or Faithless Aesthete?

in Jon Stewart (ed.), Kierkegaard's Pseudonyms

UK: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2015

A, the Aesthete: Aestheticism and The Limits of Philosophy

In Jon Stewart (ed.), Kierkegaard's Pseudonyms

UK: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2015

Repetition

In Steven Emmanuel, William McDonald, Jon Stewart (ed.) Kierkegaard's Concepts

UK: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2015

Desiderata for a Viable Secular Humanism

Journal of Applied Philosophy

2013

In Defense of a Straightforward Reading of "Fear and Trembling"

Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook

2013

The Contingency of Evil: Rethinking the Problem of Universal Evil in Kant's "Religion"

Rethinking Kant: Volume Three

UK: Cambridge Scholars. (Awarded Herz Prize by the North American Kant Society) 2011

Making Sense of the Ethical Stage: Revisiting Kierkegaard's Aesthetic to Ethical Transition

Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook

2011

Review of Merold Westphal's "In Praise of Heteronomy"

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

2017