About Me
I'm in the middle of my second year of earning my Ph.D. at the University of Iowa in philosophy. The areas of philosophy that are my specialty are epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and early modern philosophy. Within these fields, I am particularly interested in the internalism/externalism debate over justification, foundationalism/coherentism/etc. structures of justification, content externalism and theories of meaning, definite descriptions & rigid designators, skepticism & self-knowledge, structuring probabilistic inferences (especially in the lineage Keynes), the mind-body problem, mental causation, material constitution, causation, natural theology, the epistemic status of theism, miracles, philosophical theology, Descartes, Malebranche, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Reid, and the British deist controversy -- to name a few things.

I have not begun working on my dissertation yet, but I hope to put together a project on the nature of evidence and skepticism. I should finish my coursework at the end of the Spring semester, so I'll be making more progress on my dissertation soon!

I'm currently engaged to be married on May 31, 2008! I am also a proud Uncle. I love my family, and I can't wait to get married and start my own. Here are some pictures from my non-philosophy life.