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 (peer-reviewed)

• "Direction, Causation, and Appraisal Theories of Emotion" (Philosophical Psychology, Vo. 22, No. 2, April 2009)
• "Constitutivism, Belief, and Emotion" (dialectica 62:4, Fall 2008)
• "Genetic Enhancement and Parental Obligation" (Philosophy in the Contemporary World, 14:2, Fall 2008)
• See also Abstracts of recent papers.

Presentations (peer-reviewed)

• A Puzzle About Emotion, Perception and Rationality, colloquium presentation at the 2007 APA Pacific Division convention, April 7, 2007, San Francisco, CA
• A Parental Obligation to Genetically Enhance Intended Children in "Same Number" Cases, presentation at the 2007 Wisconsin Philosophical Association annual meeting, March 31 2007, St. Norbert's College, De Pere, WI
• Constitutivism and Knowing One's Emotional State, colloquium presentation at the 2005 APA Pacific Division convention, March 2005, San Francisco, CA

Presentations (non-peer-reviewed)

• Logic and Emotion in the 2008 Presidential Campaigns, radio interview topic, WRST Election Night Special Coverage, November 2008.
• Consciousness and Alienation: Must An Existentialist Be Unhappy? UW-Oshkosh, November 2007.
• The East/West Philosophy of Alan Watts, Adult Enrichment Program, Fox Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, May 2007.
• The Modularity and Rationality of Emotion, at UW-Oshkosh, February 2003.
• Do Parents Have a Moral Duty to Genetically Enhance Their Children? UW-Oshkosh, February 2003.

Miscellaneous Scholarly Activities

• Peer-reviewer for the Wisconsin Philosophical Association, 2009 Meeting, UW Oshkosh.
• Peer-reviewer for Broadview Press (2009).
• Peer-reviewer for Longman Publishers (2007).
• Peer-reviewer for Oxford University Press (2006, 2004).
• Peer-reviewer for Routledge (2005).

Awards, Grants & Fellowships

• Faculty Development Research Grant, UW-Oshkosh, Summer 2006: "Appraisal and Intentionality".
• Faculty Development Research Grant, UW-Oshkosh, Summer 2005: "Genetic Enhancement and Parental Obligation".
• Faculty Development Research Grant, UW-Oshkosh, Summer 2004: "The Modularity and Rationality of Emotion".
• Chancellor’s Dissertation Fellowship, UCLA, 2000-2001.
• Collegium of University Teaching Fellows, UCLA, 1999-2000.
• Shirley Collier Prize, UCLA English Department, 1995.
• UCLA Department of Philosophy Teaching Assistantships, 1994-2000.
• UCLA Department of Philosophy Fellowship, 1993.

Classes Taught

• 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)

College and University Service

• Humanities Division representative to the COLS Student Academic Committee, 2006-ongoing (Chair 2008-09)
• Institutional Review Board, faculty representative, 2007-2010
• Faculty Senate Student Conduct Panel, UW Oshkosh, Fall 2005-ongoing
• UW-Oshkosh Faculty Development Research and Teaching Panelist, Fall 2004-ongoing
• Search and Screen Committee for the Dean, College of Nursing, UW-Oshkosh, Fall 2005
• "Meet the faculty", Odyssey Program, 2008, 2007, 2005
• "Celebration of Scholarship", oral presentation judge, 2008

Department Service

• Search and Screen Committee Member, Fall 2007, tenure-track position search. Duties included interviewing candidates at the 2007 Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Baltimore MD.
• Search and Screen Committee Member, Spring 2007, one-year position search.
• Philosophy Department liaison to the Cooperative Academic Partnership Program (CAPP), 2008-2009.
• “Major Fest”, Philosophy Dept. representative, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
• “Fall Preview Days”, Philosophy Dept. representative, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004

Miscellaneous Professional Service

• Chair, Wisconsin Philosophical Association, 2008 Meeting, UW Milwaukee, of Shazad Akhtar's "Beyond Belief? A Short Defense of the Viability of the Pyrrhonian Program."
• Faculty Advisor to the UW-Oshkosh Freethinker's Club, 2005-2006
• Chair, Wisconsin Philosophical Association, 2004 Meeting, Marquette University, of Eric Kraemer's "Evil, Atrocity, and Harm."

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)