Bio & Interests
I am Visiting Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Brandeis University and a recent PhD from Boston University. I specialize in the ethics of technology, social and political philosophy, the philosophy of art, and phenomenology. My current research focuses on the ethical, political, and phenomenological issues generated by the meteoric rise of modern digital and biomedical technologies. For example, I write and teach about how VR and XR technologies manipulate normative affordance structures within a broader techno-capital context, and how cyborg technologies (e.g., brain-computer interface like Neuralink) play into and deepen pernicious forms of ableist political “cure aesthetics.” I am also a co-curator of the multimedia art and literature journal, field|guide (book / IG ), and the faculty advisor for Simpliciter, the Brandeis Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy (CFP here).
Full CV / Teaching Information / Teaching Portfolio
Recent / Upcoming Presentations & Research
Neuralink Control Ontology & Cripborg (An)aesthetics: Over|coming Life (American Society for Aesthetics, Rocky Mountain Division, Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 2024)
Overcoming Life: Neuralink, Cyborgs, and the Political (An)aesthetics of Cure (Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science, Malta Society of Arts, Valetta, Malta, Sept. 2023)
Shifting Between Worlds: XR, the Metaverse, and & Normative Zones of Experience (SPEP Version, TA&M, Oct. 2022 / IACAP Version, Santa Clara, June 2022)
Hyper-Reality: XR, Agency, & the Gaps Between Worlds (Invited Talk at The Prindle Ethics Institute at DePauw University, June 2022)
Synthetic Phenomenology & the Ethical Status of AI (Ethical Issues in AI & Computing Conference, Harvard/MIT, June 2022)
(Co)existing Between Worlds: Liminality, Affordances, & the Virtuality of the “Outer Wilds” (Digital Worlds Workshop, UTRGV, April 2022)
Recent / Upcoming Classes & Pedagogy
Teaching Narratives & Narrative Teaching Workshop (AAPT Teaching Hub, APA Eastern 2023)
Philosophy, Ethics, & Technology (Harvard 2024) syllabus
Money & Market Ethics (Brandeis 2023) website / course handbook / schedule
Tech Ethics—Computers, Biotech, & Human Nature (Brandeis, 2022/23/24) website / syllabus
Ethical Theory (Boston University / Brandeis, 2022/23/24) website / syllabus
The Philosophy of Film (Boston University, 2022) syllabus
Virtual Realty: The Ethics of Future Technology (Tufts, 2021) syllabus
Resources for Students
Simpliciter, Brandies University Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy (current cfp)