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Education
- Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Kentucky, 2016. Dissertation: “The Normative Architecture of Reality: Towards an Object-Oriented Ethics”
- M.A. Philosophy, University of Houston, 2009.
- B.A. Philosophy, University of Houston, 2007 Magna cum laude.
Research
Interests
- Continental philosophy (especially hermeneutics)
- Aesthetics
- Speculative realism
- Posthumanism
- History of philosophy
Publications
- “Realist Hermeneutics: Pareyson’s Challenge to New Realism.” Philosophy and Social Criticism, 0(0) (2026).
- “Distracted Aesthetics: Towards a Hermeneutics of Engagement with Distractive Works of Art.” Eidos: A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, Vol. 7 No. 2 (2023): 36-51.
- “Recollecting the Future: Matter, Form, and Spectral Violence in the Work of Pedro Reyes.” With Enrique Chacòn, Evental Aesthetics Vol. 11 (2023).
- “Excessive Materialism and the Metaphysical Basis for an Object-Oriented Ethics.” Philosophy Today 63:1. doi: 10.5840/philtoday2019611259 (2019): 101-124.
- “Interpretation from the Ground Up: Luigi Pareyson’s Hermeneutics of Inexhaustibility and its Implications for Moral Ontology.” Trópos: Journal of Hermeneutics and Philosophical Criticism, X:1 (2017): 60-90.
- “The Sensuous as Source of Demand.” Essays in Philosophy, Vol. 13:2 (2012): 430-435.
- “Dwelling in the House That Porn Built: A Phenomenological Critique of Pornography in the Age of Internet Pornography.” Social Philosophy Today, Vol. 28 (2012): 115-130.
- “Adventures of Form: Italian Aesthetics from Neo-Idealism to Pareyson.” Annali d’Italianistica, Vol. 29 (2011): 363-380.
- “What Is It Like to Be Mysterious, Alienated, and Wildly Rich Through Less Than Savory Means? Phenomenal Consciousness and Aesthetic Experience.” Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, Vol. 10:2 (2009): web.
