Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy
Education
M.A. in Philosophy, Virginia Tech
Ph.D in Philosophy, Emory University
Professional Bio
Areas of Specialization
- Kant’s Theoretical Philosophy
- History of Modern Philosophy
- Ethics
Courses
- Logic
- Critical Thinking
- Introduction to Ethics
- Ethics and the Design of Technology
- Persons, Moral Values and the Good Life
- Virtue, Happiness, and the Highest Good
- Basic Problems in Philosophy
- Introduction to Metaphysics
- Modern Philosophy
- The Enlightenment
- Epistemology
- Philosophy of Love and Sex
Recent Publications
- “Metaphysics and Physiology in Kant’s Attitude Towards Theories of Preformation” in Kant’s Theory of Biology, ed. I. Goy & E. Watkins (Berlin: deGruyter, 2012) (in press)
- “J. F. Blumenbach” in Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophersed. H. Klemme & M. Kuehn (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2010)
- “Kant’s Explanatory Natural History: Generation and Classification of Organisms in Kant’s Natural Philosophy”. In Understanding Purpose: Kant and the Philosophy of Biology, ed Philippe Hunemann. North American Kant Society Publication Series, University of Rochester Press, 2007.
- "Kant on the Material Ground of Possibility: From The Only Possible Argumentto the Critique of Pure Reason", with Eric Watkins, Review of Metaphysics 52 (1998): 369-395