curriculum vitae

EMPLOYMENT

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Kalamazoo College: September 2003 - present

EDUCATION

The University of Arizona
Ph.D. in Philosophy: July 2003
Dissertation: "Two Senses of Justification in Epistemology"
Dissertation committee: Keith Lehrer (chair), Terence Horgan, and John L. Pollock

Virginia Commonwealth University
B.A. summa cum laude, with honors, in Philosophy (double minor: History and Religious Studies): 1994

AREAS OF RESEARCH SPECIALIZATION

Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind

AREAS OF COMPETENCE / TEACHING COMPETENCIES

Advanced undergraduate level:
Metaphysics, Applied Ethics
Introductory level:
Ethics, Logic and Critical Thinking, History of Philosophy (especially Modern and Ancient), Social and Political Philosophy

PUBLICATION

"Trust and Information: The Role of Trust in the Social Epistemology of Information Science." Social Epistemology, Vol. 16 No. 1, January 2002.

PRESENTATIONS

• "Two Senses of Epistemic Justification," East Carolina University, March 2003
• "The Matrix and the Mental Patient," Kalamazoo College, February 2003
• "A Two-Sense Theory of Epistemic Justification," Northern Arizona University Department of Philosophy colloquium: December 2002
• "Two Types of Epistemic Justification," University of Arizona Department of Philosophy colloquium: November 2002
• "Two Arguments for a Two-Sense Theory of Epistemic Justification" at the Student Workshop in Philosophy, University of Arizona Department of Philosophy: 2002
• "Distributive Justice and Envy" at the Southeastern Virginia Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, Old Dominion University: 1994

HONORS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

• Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Arizona Department of Philosophy: 1998
• Philosophy Department Faculty Award, Virginia Commonwealth University: 1994

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND ACTIVITIES

• Consulting Editor, Episteme <http://www.episteme.eu.com/>
• Colloquium Assistant, Eighth Annual Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy <http://on.to/Plato2003>: 2002-2003
• Research Assistant for Professor Alvin Goldman, 1997

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

• Undergraduate Academic Advisor for the University of Arizona Department of Philosophy: Summer 2000 - May 2003
• Curriculum Committee member, University of Arizona Department of Philosophy: Fall 2000 - May 2003
• Departmental Advisor, University of Arizona Philosophy Club: 2000 - 2003
• Departmental Advisor, Arizona Alpha Chapter of the Phi Sigma Tau Philosophy Honorary: 2000 - 2003
• Co-author, University of Arizona Department of Philosophy Academic Program Review Self-Study: 2001
• Graduate Representative, University of Arizona Department of Philosophy: 1996-1997

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Independently:

Introductory-level courses:
* Introduction to Philosophy
* Justice and Virtue (history of social/political/ethics)
* Mind, Matter, and God (history of philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and epistemology)
* Philosophical Perspectives on the Individual (introduction to philosophy of mind and metaphysics)
* Introduction to Ethics, Ethics
* Logic and Reasoning
* Theories of Knowledge
* First-year seminar: "The Meaning of Life"
* Ancient Philosophy (winter 2005)

Upper-level courses:
* Metaphysics and Mind
* Medical Ethics, Biomedical Ethics
* Business Ethics
* Knowledge, Skepticism, and Film (winter 2005)

Co-taught:

* Justice and Virtue (history of social/political/ethics)

As a teaching assistant:

* Logic and Critical Thinking
* Mind, Matter, and God (history of philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and epistemology)
* Medical Ethics
* Introduction to Moral and Social Philosophy
* Introduction to Philosophy
* Justice and Virtue (history of social/political/ethics)
* Philosophical Perspectives on the Individual (introduction to philosophy of mind and metaphysics)
* Personal Morality

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