I'm a graduate student at the University of California, Riverside, interested in metaphysics, free will and moral responsibility, and philosophy of religion. I'm also an avid cyclist, a drummer (of modest talent), and an increasingly large fan of Southern California.
I'm currently (June 2009) looking forward to participating in the CEU "Aspects of Responsibility" course this summer in Budapest! (I'm also looking forward to couchsurfingmy way through Austria beforehand!)
When I get back from Europe, I'll be teaching round two of Philosophy 113, 'God', here at UCR. The more extended course title will be 'God: The Best Argument for, and the Best Argument Against'. Per that theme, we'll be doing two books: first, The Cosmological Argument by William Rowe, and second, Nature Red in Tooth and Claw: Theism and the Problem of Animal Suffering by Michael Murray.
Education:
B.A., philosophy, cum laude, Baylor University (2005)
M.A., philosophy, Univerisity of Missouri-Columbia (2007)
Publications:
"Re-reading Nelson Pike's 'Divine Omniscience and Voluntary Action'" (with John Martin Fischer and Neal Tognazzini), forthcoming in Philosophical Papers.
"A Problem for Guidance Control," The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 233 (October 2008): 685-692 (with Neal A. Tognazzini).
Online here (with subscription).
Presentations:
"Freedom, Presentism, and Truth Supervenes on Being", Berkeley-Stanford-Davis Graduate Philosophy Conference, April 2008
Some links:
MU grad student philosophy blog
The Garden of Forking Paths (action theory/free will blog)
Prosblogion (phil. religion blog)