I am a third-year graduate
student in the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. I originally hail from the Pacific Northwest, and later
spent a few years in the upper Midwest
before moving south. I hold a BA in philosophy from Whitman College, and an MA in philosophy
from Northern
Illinois
University.
Along the way, I spent a year as a VISTA with AmeriCorps,
and a summer at the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College.
I formerly served as the Research Fellow for the Parr Center for Ethics here in Chapel Hill.
My philosophical interests are fairly broad, but my thinking
nowadays has been centered around metaphysics and
philosophy of science. My other main interests include epistemology,
metaethics, the history of modern philosophy, and the philosophy of logic.
At the moment I am attempting to formulate a dissertation
project. My Master’s thesis argued for an inconsistency between deflationary
theories of truth and constructive empiricism. More generally, I am trying to
figure out the best way of understanding the various realism debates across
philosophy, and how various notions of truth can clarify or obscure those
debates.
In my spare time I've been known to write, record, and perform
music, and I like to get out on my bike. I also enjoy bookshops, baseball,
photography, cooking, climbing, sunshine, and good conversation. I'm happy to
discuss academia with anyone interested in pursuing philosophy at the
graduate level, especially if you're looking at NIU or UNC, both of which are
fantastic places to do philosophy.
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