Philosophy of religion

Philosophy of science

Social and political philosophy

2024–present: Senior Researcher, IWE

2021–present: Associate Professor, Spring Hill College, United States

2016–2021: Assistant Professor, Spring Hill College, United States

2015–2016: Instructor, Spring Hill College, United States

2009–2015: Instructor, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States

2009: Doctorate (Philosophy), University of Colorado, Boulder, United States

2004: Bachelor of Arts (Philosophy), University of Washington, Seattle, United States

“Is Life Observable?”, in Richard Playfair (ed.), Exophilosophy: The Philosophical Implications of Alien Life (Routledge). (with Chelsea Haramia) (forthcoming)

“The Case for Philosophy as a General-Education Requirement,” Teaching Philosophy 45, no. 3 (September 2022). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/teachphil2022414163

“The Nomological Argument for the Existence of God,” Noûs 56, no. 2 (with Tyler Hildebrand) (June 2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nous.12364

“Against Indifference Objections to the Fine-Tuning Argument,” Southwest Philosophy Review 38, no. 1 (January 2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5840/swphilreview202238121

“On Friederich’s New Fine-Tuning Argument,” Foundations of Physics 51, no. 2 (2021). DOI: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10701-021-00449-6

“An Axiological-Trajectory Theodicy,” Sophia 59, no. 3 (September 2020). DOI: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11841-019-00747-7

“Gun Violence as Industrial Pollution,” Public Affairs Quarterly 32, no. 2 (April 2018). DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/26909989

“Fine-Tuning the Multiverse,” Faith and Philosophy 35, no. 1 (January 2018). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5840/faithphil20181992

“An Epistemic-Virtue Solution to Some Peer Disagreements in Philosophy,” Southwest Philosophy Review 34, no. 1 (January 2018). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5840/swphilreview201834111

“On Gödel’s Ontological Argument,” Inference 3, no. 2 (2017). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.37282/991819.17.59

“Ontological Parsimony, Erosion, and Conservatism,” Metaphilosophy 47, no. 4-5 (2016). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12210

“The Under-Determination Objection to Deductive Bare-Difference Arguments,” Southwest Philosophy Review 29, no. 1 (2013). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5840/swphilreview201329112

“Underestimating the Problem of Evil,” Main-Program Colloquium, American Philosophical Association, Central Division, February 2023.

“Basic Income, Armchair Essentialism, and the Moral Value of Work,” Main-Program Colloquium, American Philosophical Association, Central Division, February 2022.

“Fine-tuning, the Multiverse, and the Total Evidence Requirement,” Main-Program Colloquium, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, January 2022.

“Against Indifference Objections to the Fine-Tuning Argument,” Southwestern Philosophical Society Conference, October 2021.

“Diachronic Fine-Tuning and Statistical Independence,” Main-Program Colloquium, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, March 2021.

“The Divine Inscrutability Objection to the Fine-Tuning Argument,” Main-Program Colloquium, American Philosophical Association, Central Division, February 2020.

“The Axiological-Trajectory Theodicy,” Main-Program Colloquium, American Philosophical Association, Central Division, February 2019.