Academic Preparation
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Department of Philosophy, Ph.D with a Specialization in Cognitive Science, Expected Spring 2010

University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Department of Philosophy, Ph.D. Student 2006—2007

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
Department of Philosophy, M.A. (ABT) 2006

University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR
Department of Philosophy, B.A. 2003

Research Interests
I have broad interests in philosophy of language, epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. I am particularly attracted to the many interesting questions and problems that lie at the intersection of the aforementioned fields, for example what is the epistemic role of conceivability and imagination in our knowledge of possibilities; what would a unified analysis of conditionals look like; what are the nature and norms of assertion. I also have an enduring interest in the history of early analytic philosophy, and the work of Gottlob Frege in particular.

Publications
Omnipotence (Forthcoming in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Teaching Experience
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Introductory Logic
     with Dien Ho, University of Kentucky, Fall '06
     with Sandy Goldberg, University of Kentucky, Spring '07
     with Sean Ebels-Duggan, Northwestern University, Fall '07
Theory of Knowledge
     with Baron Reed, Northwestern University, Winter '08
Modern Philosophy
     with Baron Reed, Northwestern University, Spring '08
Graduate Instructor
Introduction to Logic, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 2005-06

Professional Memberships
History of Early Analytic Philosophy Society
Central States Philosophical Society
Society of Christian Philosophers

Honors and Awards

Hayek Fund for Scholars, Institute for Humane Studies, 2007
Teaching Assistantship, Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University, 2007-8
Teaching Assistantship, Department of Philosophy, University of Kentucky, 2006-07
Travel Funding, Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, 2006
Teaching Assistantship, Department of Philosophy, University of Arkansas, 2005-06
Phi Sigma Tau, International Honor Society in Philosophy, 2003
Frothingham Award for excellence in Philosophy and Religious Studies, 2003
Travel Scholarship, Hendrix-Lilly Vocations Initiative, 2003

Conference Presentations
The Value of Skepticism
Presented at the International Conference on the Value of Knowledge, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 2007

Combinatorialism and the Impossibility of Aliens
Presented at the Intermountain West Student Philosophy Conference, University of Utah, 2006
Presented to the University of Arkansas, Socratic Society, Fayetteville, AR, 2006

Conference Participation
Commentator on "God's Omnipotence and Descartes' Argument for Mind-Body Distinctness" by Kienhow Goh
University of Kentucky 10th Annual Graduate Student Conference, Lexington, KY, 2007

Commentator on "Virtue Reliabilism and the Value of Knowledge" by Justin McBrayer
Central States Philosophical Society, Memphis, TN, 2006

Commentator on "Kripke's Difficulties in Supposing Things to have been Otherwise" by Jeremy Kelly
Intermountain West Student Philosophy Conference, University of Utah, 2006

Invited Presentations
Future of Philosophy - Experimental Philosophy, Metaphysical Club, 03/2007
Philosophy and Pop Culture - Philosophy Blogging, Metaphysical Club, 11/2006

Service
Principle Organizer, Northwestern Linguistics and Philosophy Working Group, 2007-2008
Reviewer, ESSLLI  Logic and Language Student Sessions, 2008
Session Chair, American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, 2008
Assistant Coordinator, First Annual Midwest Epistemology Workshop, 2007
Referee, Society for Student Philosophers, 2007-2008
Web Administrator, Cognitive Science Program, University of Kentucky, 2006-2007
President, Socratic Society, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2003
President, Phi Sigma Tau, Arkansas Beta Chapter, 2003

Graduate Courses

Language, Epistemology & Metaphysics

Conceptual Analysis, Seminar	Sanford Goldberg (UKY)
Conditionals†	Sanford Goldberg & Stefan Kaufmann (NU)
Metaphysics	Eric Funkhouser (UARK)
Epistemology	Jennifer Lackey (NU)
Symbolic Logic I	Barry Ward (UARK)
Symbolic Logic II	Harmon Holcomb (UKY)
Philosophy of Language: Reference	Christina Lafont & Gregory Ward (NU)
Fundamentals of Meaning (Linguistics)	Brady Clark (NU)
Semantic Analysis I (Linguistics)	Stefan Kaufmann (NU)
Grammatical Analysis (Linguistics)	Gregory Stump (UKY)

History of Philosophy

Wittgenstein's P.I., Seminar	Edward Minar (UARK)
Heidegger's Being and Time, Seminar	Christina Lafont (NU)
Classics of Analytic Philosophy	Sean Ebles Duggan (NU)
History of Analytic Philosophy	Edward Minar (UARK)
Descartes & Spinoza	Baron Reed (NU)
Modern Philosophy	Jacob Adler (UARK)
Aristotle's Metaphysics, Seminar	David Bradshaw (UKY)
Augustine, Seminar ‡	Lynne Spellman (UARK)
Greek Philosophy	Lynne Spellman (UARK)

Philosophy of Religion

Philosophical Theology, Seminar	Thomas Senor (UARK)
Jewish Philosophy	Jacob Adler (UARK)
Philosophy of Religion	Thomas Senor (UARK)

Value Theory

Dignity & Self-Respect, Seminar	Anita Superson (UKY)
Ethical Theory	Anita Superson (UKY)
Philosophy of Art	Richard Lee (UARK)

† Independent Study
‡ Audited Course

Reading Groups

Timonthy Williamson's "The Philosophy of Philosophy" Spring 2008
Vincent Hendricks' "Mainstream and Formal Epistemology" Winter 2008
Ernest Sosa's "A Virtue Epistemology: Apt Belief and Reflective Knowledge" Fall 2007
Paul Boghossian's "Fear of Knowledge" & J. Hawthorne's "Knowledge and Lotteries" Fall 2006

References

Available upon request.