I am assistant professor of philosophy at Loyola Marymount University in LA.

I specialize in philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, and value theory.​​​

I'm honored to have just won the Plantinga Prize for my paper, "Faith Because of Evil," which I wrote as a visiting scholar at Princeton last fall with 3PR.

I'm writing a book on the value of historical objects, meaning in life, and the spiritual dimensions of engaging with nature (The World as Relic, Routledge).​

Beyond this, I'm writing essays about...

• Emotional experience: its epistemic value and representational content

• The grounds of natural rights/moral status

• Life's narrativity and its connection to well-being

• The ways God's existence would or would not make our lives go better​

• Hope as a rational basis for religious commitment

​I earned my PhD from the University of Pittsburgh under Edouard Machery, John McDowell, Karl Schafer, Jim Woodward, and Crispin Wright. Before that, I earned my MA from NYU under David Velleman.