about
I am an assistant professor at the Institute of American Constitutional Thought and Leadership, a civics center at the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio. I am also a visiting fellow in the Emerging Scholars Program at the Mercatus Center. My doctorate is in philosophy, from Notre Dame, and before Toledo I did a postdoc at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University and taught in the University of Tulsa Honors College, a Great Books program.
My academic research is in epistemology, especially political epistemology, as well as in political philosophy, especially challenges to and defenses of liberalism. My first book is Political Beliefs, published by Routledge and free online, and my first paper is "Uncoordinated Norms of Belief", published by the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. Some current projects include a paper on the epistemology of redefining words, a paper on the politics of redefining words, a paper on Mill's so-called "Trident" argument for free speech, a paper on the debate between political realists and political moralists, a paper on liberalism and the rule of law, a paper on whether liberals can and should be "humble", and a paper on whether we can have reasons to do the impossible. I am also undertaking an experimental AI-assisted project on the city/country divide in political belief.
I write a lot for public venues. Some of my recent efforts have covered liberal education, academic freedom, Straussianism, subtlety, sexual monstrosity, anti-white sentiment, woke chaos, wokeness as class politics, liberal credentialism, the 1990s, vitalism, knowing what you want, leaving your house, Whit Stillman, John Searle, and Derek Parfit. You can find more using the links to the left.
You can email me about whatever you'd like. No promises about answering.
My academic research is in epistemology, especially political epistemology, as well as in political philosophy, especially challenges to and defenses of liberalism. My first book is Political Beliefs, published by Routledge and free online, and my first paper is "Uncoordinated Norms of Belief", published by the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. Some current projects include a paper on the epistemology of redefining words, a paper on the politics of redefining words, a paper on Mill's so-called "Trident" argument for free speech, a paper on the debate between political realists and political moralists, a paper on liberalism and the rule of law, a paper on whether liberals can and should be "humble", and a paper on whether we can have reasons to do the impossible. I am also undertaking an experimental AI-assisted project on the city/country divide in political belief.
I write a lot for public venues. Some of my recent efforts have covered liberal education, academic freedom, Straussianism, subtlety, sexual monstrosity, anti-white sentiment, woke chaos, wokeness as class politics, liberal credentialism, the 1990s, vitalism, knowing what you want, leaving your house, Whit Stillman, John Searle, and Derek Parfit. You can find more using the links to the left.
You can email me about whatever you'd like. No promises about answering.
