I'm an ABD PhD student in philosophy at Rutgers University. My main area of interest is epistemology, but I also work a fair bit on issues in the philosophy of practical reason, value theory and the philosophy of mind. After taking a fun class with Ruth Chang and Derek Parfit in my first year, my fascination with epistemic normativity became part of a broader fascination with normativity in all domains, and with truths about reasons, rationality and value that are domain-transcendent. If John Skorupski hadn't just published The Domain of Reasons -- go read it! -- something thematically similar if less epic might have been my dissertation. Few things excite me more than the prospect of a unified theory of normative facts.
I also loved metaphysics as an undergraduate and have taught it as a graduate student. I still think like a metaphysician in spite of not currently regarding myself as one. Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, my principal vice is excessive abstraction. (But I thankfully no longer accept as a presupposition of inquiry that issues are worth pursuing only in proportion to their relative metaphysical fundamentality!)
I also loved metaphysics as an undergraduate and have taught it as a graduate student. I still think like a metaphysician in spite of not currently regarding myself as one. Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, my principal vice is excessive abstraction. (But I thankfully no longer accept as a presupposition of inquiry that issues are worth pursuing only in proportion to their relative metaphysical fundamentality!)
I also have various extra-philosophical interests, though these are usually pursued with philosophy on the back of my mind. I enjoy the visual arts, poetry, literary essays, and aesthetic writings by non-philosophers.
Here are colorful square "avatars" for the subsections of this website. Perhaps it is more interesting to click them and enjoy a small surprise than to do the boring thing and click on the clearly labeled links that are found above. (???!)
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This website vaguely aesthetically rips off Paul Klee (in his Bauhaus period), my favorite visual artist. He was also a delightful writer. You should read his journals: http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/1085.php.
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This website vaguely aesthetically rips off Paul Klee (in his Bauhaus period), my favorite visual artist. He was also a delightful writer. You should read his journals: http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/1085.php.
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