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Education:
- B.A., Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI)
- Ph.D. Candidate, The Pennsylvania State University
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Areas of Specialization:
- Classical and Contemporary American Pragmatism (esp. Peirce), Epistemology/Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science and Technology
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Areas of Competence :
- History of Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of History
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Dissertation Title & Committee:
- "Retrospective Pragmatism: CS Peirce on the Logic of Memory and History"
- Committee: Dr. Vincent Colapietro, Director; Dr. Dale Jacquette, Dr. William Pencak, Dr. Doug Anderson
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Current Research:
- My dissertation concerns the various ways that the pragmatism of CS Peirce relates to the past. In short, I am attempting to refigure pragmatism's inherent "futurism" - all meaning is futural - by focusing on Peirce's claims that, for example, "The Past is the storehouse of all knowledge." This will involve analyzing Peirce's account of memory in its various modes, what the phenomenological fact of memory proves about us and the world, and how Peirce's account is superior to others. In addition, I will address Peirce's practices as an historian and philosopher of science to understand his view on history as a science that is both an independent field and an essential component within every other science.
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