My research interest in philosophy has guided my undergraduate and graduate studies at Columbia University, Boston College, and Loyola University Chicago.

I am curious about my world. I love to share what I’ve learned and learn from others.

Within philosophy, I have primarily focused on the topics of metaphysics and phenomenology, branching out to the topics of ethics, aesthetics, environmental philosophy on occasion. I have been fortunate to find the opportunity to present my research in a variety of formats, including lectures, conference presentations (refereed and invited), commentaries, and posters. Lately, building on my experience as a teacher, I have taken a research interest in pedagogy in the digital environment.

Lecture

• “Ethics of Automated Warfare,” delivered at The United States Military Academy (West Point: March, 2014)

Presentations, Refereed

• “A Phenomenology of Motion and Rest in the Experience of the Art” at the Canadian Society for Aesthetics Annual Conference (Ryerson University, Toronto: May, 2017)

• “Husserl’s Regional Phenomenology of Nature and the Material A Priori,” presented at the Participants Conference of the Collegium Phaenomenologicum (Città di Castello, Italy: July, 2016)

• “Moral Responsiveness in Remote Warfare,” presented at the International Biennial Conference of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society (Chicago: October, 2015)

• “Intentionalism in the Work of Art and the Working of Art” presented at the Canadian Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting (Brock University, Canada: May, 2014)

• “A Phenomenology of Weather Forecasting” presented at Back To The Things Themselves! Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (Brock University, Canada: May, 2014)

• “The Priority of the Historical in Husserl’s Phenomenology,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology (Helsinki, Finland: April, 2014)

• “Intentionalism, Allusion, and the Demands of Inter-Subjectivity,” presented at the American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division Meeting (Philadelphia: March, 2014)

• “Personhood and the Region of Reversibility of Natural and Cultural Phenomena,” presented at Phenomenological Personhood, a meeting of the Phenomenology Research Group at the New School for Social Research (New York City: March, 2014)

• “Phenomenologies of Human and Robotic Military Comportment,” presented at the International Biennial Conference of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society (Chicago: October, 2013)

• “From Aristotle to Arendt: A Quick Philosophical Primer on the Basis of the Right to Protest,” presented at the People’s Summit (Chicago: 2012)

• “The Ethics of Algorithms: Empirical-Mathematical Cognitive Modeling in Target Assessment and the Phenomenological Response,” presented at The Ethics of Vicarious Warfare (Fort Leavenworth: 2012)

• “Two Poles of Authority in Two Platonic Dialogues,” presented at the meeting of the NAASN (Toronto: 2011)

• “Dots and Data: Seurat and Sartre,” presented at Locating Public(s) (UMASS/Amherst: 2009)

• “Of Dots, Data, and Magic: Seurat, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty,” presented at Bodies in Motion (University of Rhode Island: 2009)

• “Theory and Practice in the Work of Art,” presented at the Hawaiian International Conference on Arts & Humanities (Hawaii: 2008)

Commentary

• Commentary on Akos Krassoy’s “Can Art Save Itself? Levinas in Dialogue with Sartre on the Freedom of the Aesthetic,” given at the American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division Meeting (Philadelphia: 2015)
• Commentary on David Pena-Guzman’s “Synthesis Without Subjectivity,” given at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Meeting (Philadelphia: 2014)
• Commentary on Timothy Lord’s “The Weight of Wollheim on Collingwood’s Aesthetics,” given at the American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting (San Antonio: 2014)

Presentations, Invited

• “Internet, Ideology, and the Incipient Research Skills of Middle Schoolers” at the Junior Boarding School Association Conference (Eaglebrook School, Deerfield, MA: 2019)

• “The Medean Complex: the anxiety of disconnection in Husserl’s “world-annihilation” thought experiment” at the 11th Annual Graduate School Interdisciplinary Research Symposium (Loyola University, Chicago: April, 2018)

• “Causality and the Phenomenology of Substruction,” presented at the 14th Annual Phenomenology Roundtable (Canisius College, Buffalo: June, 2014)

• “Gelassenheit and Greasing the Wheel of Theoretical Advance in Husserl’s Philosophy of Science,” presented at Collegium Phaenomenologicum (Città di Castello, Italy: July 2013)

• “Whither the Science of the Life-World?,” presented at Who’s Afraid of Forms? (University of Calabria, Italy: July, 2013)

• “Epochal Thinking/Seeing,” presented at the 13th Annual Phenomenology Roundtable (LUC: May, 2013)

• “The Historicity of Causality Along Husserl’s Krisis Timeline,” presented at the 12th Annual Phenomenology Roundtable (Marquette University: May, 2012)

• “Dikē/Epokhē,” presented at the Phenomenology Research Group Workshop: Alterity and Meaning (LUC: 2012)

Posters

• “Phenomenology of Causality,” presented at the Loyola University Graduate School Research Conference as part of completing the Research Mentor Program award requirements (LUC: 2015)