Personal.  I was born in 1986 in northern Minnesota, a part of America that is virtually Canadian, and also the birthplace of Bob Dylan; to the right is a picture from this era.  I moved states with my mom when I was 14, and attended public high school and college in Iowa City, a liberal sanctuary in the Midwest that voted overwhelmingly against Trump.  As an undergraduate, I lived in the basement of a bookshop, and I worked in several bookshops, the Iowa Law Library, a Procter & Gamble factory, and the Iowa Law, Health Policy, and Disability Center.  I then moved to New Brunswick, New Jersey in 2008 for graduate school at Rutgers. Whenever I wasn’t working on philosophy, I took the train to New York City.  Since 2014 I’ve lived in Southampton, England.

​​My brilliant and wonderful wife Kate Sylvan is a dual UK/American citizen who was born in Southampton (though we met in New Jersey).  In late September 2016 (before the world descended fully into lunacy), we were thrilled to bring home our child, Edward ('Teddy') Felix Sylvan.   Although Teddy instantly became the most beloved little fellow in the household, we have been trying our best to reassure our poor cat Seneca that he remains our favorite non-human animal.  

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