Degrees

Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.A., B.A. University of South Florida

Research Interests

• Early Modern Philosophy
• Metaphysics

Other Interests

• American Philosophy
• 18th and 19th Century European Literature

Selected Publications, Creative Work, or Performances

“The Non-Christian Influence on Anselm’s Proslogion Argument,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 69, No. 2 (2011), pp. 73-89.

“Why Hume’s Counterexample is Insignificant and Why It is Not,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy Vol. 17, No. 5 (December 2009), pp. 955-979.

“‘Presence’ and ‘Likeness’ in Arnauld’s Critique of Malebranche.” Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Vol. XXVI (2002), pp. 205-212.

“Why Cartesian Ideas of Sense are Innate.” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 38, No. 3 (September 2000), pp. 413-428.

"Uniqueness in Descartes' ‘Infinite’ and ‘Indefinite’," History of Philosophy Quarterly Vol. 15, No. 1  (January 1998), pp. 23-35.