PhD (University of Aberdeen) • Assistant Professor of Philosophy @RedeemerUniv • 23-24 Faculty Research Fellow at Notre Dame’s Center for Phil of Religion
South Bend, IN
Joined August 2012
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Friends, allow me to share a some exciting news! I have accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Eastern University in PA. My appointment is in the philosophy department with a partial load in the Templeton Honors College. >>
Over the last two weeks I have said many sad goodbyes in both South Bend, IN and Hamilton, ON and am really looking forward to some very happy hellos in Philadelphia.
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“Beauty insists that I inwardly open myself to it and let my inner self be determined by it.” Edith Stein
A step into a new life in view of an even greater promise of new life. This was an especially joyful Easter!
Someone needs to make a heart wringing movie that foregrounds Edith Stein’s relationship with Husserl over the years.
“That sacrifice, a journey up the Mount Moriah of Isaac and Abraham that Rothko frequents in his mental gymnastics with Kierkegaard, is a sacrifice toward a possibility of redemption.“
My essay on Rothko: Mark Rothko, A Painter of Ideas - Yale University Press yalebooks.yale.edu/2023/07/1…
“Friendship cannot be separated from reality any more than the beautiful. It is a miracle, like the beautiful. And the miracle consists simply in the fact that it exists.” - Simone Weil
Having lived in Minnesota and Canada, I am rather familiar with “false springs.” But Indiana is the weirdest of them all. One hour it is sunny and mild, the next there is a blizzard. Then more sun, and then another blizzard.
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I am teaching a class called Philosophy and Literature in the fall. What are your favorite literary works that are especially philosophically intriguing?
There are big transitions on the horizon and I am so excited to begin this new chapter! My deepest thanks to family, friends, colleagues, and mentors who have supported and encouraged me along the way.
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When a boomer and a millennial decide to get together for coffee and the boomer suggests “Starbucks, Panera, or Duncan Donuts”
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Patience as a hermeneutical virtue. This is a paper I had been wanting to write for a while! Many thanks to Steve Evans and John Lippitt for including me in their special issue. mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/3/317
“The true poet is endowed with the gift of ‘creating’ characters that are true to life. This kind of creativity, to be sure, is of a peculiar nature. It is not ‘free’ in the sense of being completely arbitrary. The more genuine and the greater the art of the poet the more >>
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his creation will resemble a conception and birth and the less will it show the marks of mechanical construct. The ‘artistic structure’ has its immanent organic law to which the ‘master’ must submit if his or her creation is to be a work of art rather than mere ‘artifact.’ >>
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