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Education: Ph.D., The Catholic University of America, 2000
Courses: Introduction to Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Theory of Knowledge, History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, History of Modern Philosophy, History of 19th-Century Philosophy, Existentialism
Recent Publications:
Papers/Articles
"The Principle of Determinability and the Possibility of Synthetic A Priori Judgments in Kant and Maimon." In Rethinking Kant - Current Trends in North American Kantian Scholarship. Ed. Pablo Muchnik. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
"Kant's Analytic-Synthetic Distinction: A Reply to a Classical Objection." In An Anthology of Philosophical Studies. Ed. Patricia Hanna. Athens: Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2008.
“Why Are Kant’s Hypothetical and Categorical Imperatives Analytic and Synthetic A Priori Practical Propositions?” In Recht und Frieden in der Philosophie Kants: Akten des X. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses. Ed. Valerio Rohden, et. al. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008.
“The Determinate-Indeterminate Distinction and Kant’s Theory of Judgment.” Kant-Studien 95: 2 (2004).
Dictionaries/Lexicons
"analytisch/synthetisch", "Methode, analytische/synthetische", "synthetisch", "Einheit, analytische/synthetische", "Definition", "Prolegomena zu einer jeden Metaphysik...", in Kant-Lexikon. Eds. Georg Mohr, Jürgen Stolzenberg, and Marcus Willaschek. Berlin/New York, Walter de Gruyter (forthcoming, 2009)
Conference Presentations
"How Are Synthetic Judgments Possible A Priori? From Kant to Hegel", The XXII World Congress of Philosophy, July 30-August 5, 2008, Seoul, Korea.
“The Synthetic A Priori in Kant, Maimon, Fichte, and Schelling”, The Fourth Annual Meeting of the Eastern Group of the North American Kant Society, University of Southern Maine, May 18-19, 2007.
“Kant’s Analytic-Synthetic Distinction: A Reply to a Classical Objection”, The Second International Conference on Philosophy, Athens, Greece, June 4-5, 2007.
Associations
Member of the American Philosophical Association
Member of the North American Kant Society
Member of the Society of Christian Philosophers