EDUCATION
2000 D.Phil., Philosophy, University of Oxford
1994 M.A., Philosophy, University of Ottawa
1992 Hons. B.A. summa cum laude, Philosophy, McMaster University
DISSERTATION
Subjects, Identity, and Objective Experience: The Neo-Kantian/Reductionist Debate
advisors: Derek Parfit, Paul Snowdon, Quassim Cassam
examiners: Galen Strawson, José Louis Bermúdez
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
I am presently an Associate Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University
2007-2011 Assistant Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University
2004-2005 Junior Research Associate and Tutor, New College, University of Oxford
2001-2004 Lecturer, New College, University of Oxford
2000-2001 Lecturer, St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford
2000 Tutor, Pembroke College, University of Oxford
1997 Tutor, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Personal Identity, Self-Knowledge and Self-Consciousness, Death, Memory, Spatial Awareness
PUBLICATIONS
'Reasons to Live Versus Reasons Not to Die' Think 28.10 (2011)
‘Scraping Down the Past: Personal Memory and Historical Amnesia in Sebald’s Anti-narrative’, Philosophy and Literature 34.2 (2010)
‘A Special Way of Being Afraid’, Philosophical Psychology 23.5 (2010)
‘Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald’, The Literary Encyclopedia. Clark, ed. (2009)
‘Reasons to be Fearful: Strawson, Death, and Narrative’, in Narrative and Understanding Persons. Hutto, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007
‘Impersonal Identity and Corrupting Concepts’, Southern Journal of Philosophy 43 (2005)
‘Corrupting Concepts’, in Personhood: Workshop Papers of the Conference ‘Dimensions of Personhood’. Ikäheimo, Kotkavirta, Laitinen and Lyyra, eds. Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä, 2004
‘The New Neo-Kantian and Reductionist Debate’, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 84 (2003)
‘Despair, Liberation, and Everyday Life’, Richmond Journal of Philosophy 5 (2003)
‘Derek Parfit’, in The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 262: British Philosophers 1800-2000. Dematteis, Fosl, and McHenry, eds. Detroit: Gale Group, 2002
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