I completed my PhD in philosophy at Baylor University in spring of 2020.
My dissertation focused on the metaphysics of the human body, particularly the question of bodily parthood – under what conditions do things come to stand in the relation is a body part of a human being to us? What types of things can come to be in this type of relation, and what does it mean for how we treat those objects ethically? I examined key questions in medical ethics both surrounding end of life care and treatment and questions of human enhancement. I’m currently working on papers related to this project, including papers in the philosophy of religion, hylomorphism, and the nature of symbiotic relationships.
My others areas of research interest include: philosophy of disability, philosophy of religion, metaphysics of gender, virtue ethics, and the philosophy of Plato.
Recent Publications:
“Frontiers of Analogous Justice: A Thomistic Approach to Martha Nussbaum’s Justice for Animals” Proceedings of the 2017 American Catholic Philosophical Association 91:201-210 (2017)
“Disability and First-Person Testimony: A Case of Defeat?” Southwest Philosophy Review: The Journal of the Southwestern Philosophical Society 34.1 (2018), 141-151
“Heavenly (Gendered) Bodies? Gender Persistence in the Resurrection and Its Implications” in The Lost Sheep in Philosophy of Religion (eds. Kevin Timpe and Blake Hereth), Routledge, 2019
With Alexander Pruss, ““Privation in the problem of evil: Impairment, health, wellbeing, and a case of humans and betazoids”, Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Religion 9 (2019) 1-16