Ph.D.   (Philosophy), Fordham University, Bronx, NY, defense expected: spring 2010

Dissertation: Husserl and the Problem of Normativity

Director: John J. Drummond

M.A.    (Philosophy), Purdue University, Lafayette, IN, May 1999

            Thesis:  Gadamer and Hermeneutical Experience

Director:  Calvin O. Schrag

M.T.S. (Hebrew Bible), Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, TN, May 1997

A.B.    (Religious Studies), Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN, May 1995

 

AOS:   Twentieth-century Phenomenology (especially Husserl), Ethics

AOC:  Twentieth-century French Philosophy, Modern Moral Philosophy,Social and Political Philosophy

 

Instructor, Department of Philosophy, Fordham University, fall 2007-present

Online Instructor, World Campus, The Pennsylvania State University, summer 2006- summer 2009

Instructor, Department of English, The Pennsylvania State University, fall 2005-spring 2006

Instructor, Department of Philosophy, Fordham University, fall 2002-spring 2004

 

Peer Reviewed Article

“Transforming Necessity: Transcendental Logic after Cavaillès,” Philosophy Today 51 (2007): 148-153.

Edited Collection

The Reason of Terror. Kem Crimmins and Herbert DeVriese, co-editors. Leuven, Belgium: Peeters Publishers, 2006.

Chapters in Collection

“Expressions of Terror: Islamist Communicative Praxis,” in The Reason of Terror.

 “Terror(ism) as a Philosophical Problem: Introduction to the ‘Reason’ of Terror” (with Herbert DeVriese), in The Reason of Terror.

Encyclopedia Article

“Jean-François Lyotard,” in Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics. Carl Mitcham, editor. New York, NY: MacMillan Reference Books, 2005.

Book Reviews

“Worst Cases: Terror and Catastrophes in the Popular Imagination.” Metapsychology Online 10.46 (Nov 2006).

  “The New Husserl: A Critical Reader.” Auslegung 27.2 (winter/spring 2005).

Note

“Book Notes: African Philosophy, The Oxford Handbook of Rationality, and Reason and Value.” International  Philosophical Quarterly. 44.4 (Dec 2004): 606.

"Evidence and the Human Sciences: Rereading Husserl's 'Philosophy as a Rigorous Science'," Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Chicago, IL, 8-10 November 2007.

“Transforming Necessity: Transcendental Logic after Cavaillès,” 45^th  Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Philadelphia, PA, 12-14 October 2006.

“The Practical Relevance of Transcendental Phenomenology,” 44^th Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Salt Lake City, UT, 20-22 October 2005.

“On the Possibility of Formal Ethics,” 42^nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Boston, MA, 6-8 November 2003.

“Husserl’s Ethics and Moral Normativity,” Eleventh Annual DePaul Philosophy Graduate Student Association Conference, Chicago, IL, 2-3 April 2004.

“Against Secularism: Religious Rhetoric in the Public Sphere,” The End of Secular Thought?, Fordham University, Bronx, NY, 12-14 April 2007.

“Terrorism and Justice,” The Reason of Terror: Philosophical Responses to Terrorism, University of Antwerp, 17-19 March 2005.

Comment on Jeremy Smith’s “Phenomenological Reduction and Aesthetic Experience,” 36^th Annual Meeting of the Husserl Circle, Wellesley, MA, 22-24 June 2006.

Comment on John J. Drummond’s “Value-Predicates and Value-Properties,” 34^th Annual Meeting of The Husserl Circle, Washington D.C., 10-13 June 2004.

Comment on Dennis E. Skocz’s “Husserl and the ‘Family of Man’:  Diversity, Historicity, and Difference,” 33^rd Annual Meeting of The Husserl Circle, New York, NY, 12-15 June 2003.

Comment on Neil Rosen’s “Transcendental Subjectivity and The Empirical Subject: Terms for a Husserlian Description of Bad Faith,” Fordham Philosophical Society Graduate Philosophy Conference, Bronx, NY, 4-5 April 2002.

 

Co-organizer:  The Reason of Terror:  Philosophical Responses to Terrorism

University of Antwerp, 17-19 March 2005

Co-organizer: The End of Secular Thought?, Fordham University, 12-14 April 2007

 

Co-organizer: Normativity and Culture, University of Antwerp, 19-21 March 2009

Non-voting member, Faculty Evaluation Committee, Fordham University, fall 2009

Reviewer for Wadsworth-Thomson, fall 2006

President, Fordham Philosophical Society, summer 2003-spring 2004

Representative, Fordham Graduate Student Association, fall 2003-spring 2004

     Paper Referee, Fordham Graduate Philosophical Conference, spring 2004

     Member, Fordham Philosophical Society’s Symposia Committee, fall 2002-spring 2004

Secretary, Fordham Philosophical Society, summer 2002-spring 2003

Paper Referee, Fordham Graduate Philosophical Conference, spring 2002

 

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Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

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