Education
University of Iowa, Visiting PhD Student (Spring 2024)
City University of New York, Graduate Center (2020-2021)
MA, University of Chicago
BA, St. John’s College
Biography
Areas of Research
Ethics, Philosophy of Language, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Political Philosophy, Post-Kantian European Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy
Selected Publications
- “Language and Methodological Limits in Wittgenstein and Hayek” in Gamero, Isabel G., Amadeusz Just, and Jasmin Trächtler, eds. Feminist Philosophy — Language, Knowledge, and Politics: Proceedings of the 46th International Wittgenstein Symposium. De Gruyter, forthcoming 2026. Co-written with David Ween.
- “Wittgenstein Plays the Pedal Steel” chapter in Heter, Joshua and Brett Coppenger, eds. Country Music and Philosophy. MacFarland and Co., forthcoming 2025.
- “Translating the Tractatus and Tractarian Ethics” in Passinsky, Asya, Julio De Rizzo, and Benjamin Schnieder, eds. Facets of Reality — Contemporary Debates: Proceedings of the 45th International Wittgenstein Symposium. De Gruyter, 2024.
- Review of Transcending Reason: Heidegger on Rationality, Matthew Burch and Irene McMullin, eds. Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual, Vol. 13 (2023): 273-279.
- “The Comstock Apparatus” chapter in Canaday, Margot, Nancy F. Cott, and Robert O. Self, eds. Intimate States: Gender, Sexuality, and Governance in Modern US History. University of Chicago Press, 2021. Co-written with Jeffrey Escoffier and Whitney Strub.
Teaching (Instructor of Record)
Buddhist Philosophy and Philosophy of Language (Spring 2025, Fall 2024)
Religions of the World (Fall 2023, two sections)
Introduction to Philosophy: Environmental Ethics Focus (Spring 2023)
Introduction to Philosophy (Fall 2022)