I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis and the Editor of The Southern Journal of Philosophy.
My primary area of research is metaphysics – specifically, personal identity – but this work extends both to other topics in metaphysics (material constitution, death), as well as to topics in philosophical psychology (self-consciousness, animal cognition) and the philosophy of biology (dynamic systems, life).
APRIL 2012: Received Faculty Research Grant for development of book proposal (Being of Life: An Ontology of Human Animals [More here ...]
MARCH 2012: "A New Argument for Animalism" will appear in Analysis later this year.
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JULY 2012:
"Mortal Harm Across the Human/ Nonhuman Divide," Minding Animals, Utrecht University, The Netherlands [More here ... ]
JULY 2012: "Thinkers, Brains, and Animals,"
Persons and their Brains, Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, University of Oxford
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NOVEMBER 2012:
"Thinking Animals: Differences that Make a Difference and the Difference They Make,"
Institute for Intelligent Systems, Cognitive Science Seminar, University of Memphis [More here ... ]