Academic Journey:I'm currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. Louis Community College where I've taught since Spring of 2021.
..... How did I get here? In 2010, I declared philosophy as my major at Santa Monica College. For two years, my interest was in social and political philosophy; which, by my lights, includes religious studies. I wanted to understand the effects of our beliefs (including our religious beliefs) on how we act. In 2012, I transferred to UCLA and while studying there I attended an APA meeting with the philosophy club in San Diego. In one session, people were trying to figure out what kind of true belief gets called knowledge. I became addicted to Gettier literature. I took an intro to epistemology course and became sure that knowledge is not a kind of belief at all. By 2014, I was calling myself a future epistemologist. My writing sample for graduate school aimed at showing that Plato is correct that knowledge is not something like a justified true belief. In 2015, I entered the Ph.D. in philosophy program at Saint Louis University. My research interest remained in epistemology but I moved beyond Plato (likely because I can't read Attic Greek!). Under John Greco's supervision, I defended my dissertation in Spring of 2020. In my dissertation, Knowledge Beyond Belief, I broaden the limits of knowledge beyond traditional conceptions and contemporary alternatives by arguing for knowledge beyond the scope of belief. I defended my doctoral dissertation virtually in the first few months of the COVID-19 Pandemic. I took work as an adjuct working simultaneously for Jefferson College, St. Louis Community College, St. Louis University, and Southern Illinois University (Edwardsville). One year later, I accepted a full time position as an Assistant Professor. In 2025, I was promoted to Associate Professor. Everyday I enter the classroom, or log into it, is a gift. |
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