Academic Employment

• Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh, July 2009 (ongoing)
• Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh, September 2003 - June 2009
• Lecturer, California State University Long Beach, Fall 2001-May 2003
• Instructor, UCLA, Summer Sessions 1999-2001
• Teaching Assistant, UCLA, September 1994-May 2001
• Research Assistant, Getty Research Institute (Visiting Scholars Program), 1998-99; 1999-2000.

• Ph.D., Philosophy, UCLA, September 2003
  • Dissertation: Noninferential Emotion-based Knowledge
  • Committee Chair: Tyler Burge.
• C. Phil., Philosophy, UCLA, June 1999
• M.A., Philosophy, UCLA, June 1996
• B.A., Philosophy, Reed College, June 1976

Areas of Specialization

• Philosophy of Mind, Psychology & Emotion
• Epistemology

Areas of Competence

• Ethical Theory / Metaethics
• Philosophy of Language
• 20th Century Philosophy
• Formal Logic / Critical Reasoning
• Existentialism (Sartre)

Publications & Presentations

• See Publications & Presentations

Classes Taught

• Selected Topics: The Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Contemporary Philosophy (UW-Oshkosh)
• Theory of Knowledge (UW-Oshkosh)
• The Philosophy of Emotion (UW-Oshkosh)
• Introduction to Philosophy (UW-Oshkosh)
• Introductory Ethics (UW-Oshkosh, CSULB)
• Interdisciplinary Studies First-Year Honors Seminar: Ethics (UW-Oshkosh)
• Critical Reasoning, Introductory Logic (UW-Oshkosh, CSULB)
• Formal Logic (UCLA)
• Existentialism (UCLA)
• Philosophical Approaches to Emotion (UCLA)

Related Professional Experience

• Designer and programmer of Bertrand, symbolic logic software for Macintosh computers.

Professional Associations

• American Philosophical Association
• Wisconsin Philosophical Association
• The Association of University of Wisconsin Professionals (TAUWP)