I’m a Professor of Philosophy at RIT.
I specialize in epistemology, American pragmatism, and the history of 20th century Anglo-American philosophy.
Selected Publications
Download my CV here.
Recent reviews
2025. Review of On Truth in Politics: Why Democracy Demands It by Michael Lynch. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
2023. (With Camille Lea). Review of How to Think Like a Philosopher by Julian Baggini. Metascience.
2022. Review of Fixing the Climate: Strategies for an Uncertain World by Charles Sabel and David Victor. Dewey Studies 6:93-97.
2022. Review of A Philosopher Looks at Science by Nancy Cartwright. Metascience.
2020. Review of Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life by John Kaag. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 56: 110-113.
2020. Review of Neurath Reconsidered: New Sources and Perspectives edited by Jordi Cat and Adam Tamas Tuboly. HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 10: 353-357.
In 2021 I started a monthly interview series “I Am an American Philosopher” for the website of The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (SAAP). A full list of interviews is here.
Recent Articles
2025. ‘At the outset, at least’: Pragmatism, mediation, and punishment. Contemporary Pragmatism. 22: 28–39.
2025. Truth and the future. Think. 23: 55–61.
2024. Epistemology, logic, and inquiry. In Sami Pihlström (Ed.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Pragmatism. London: Bloomsbury.
2024. Responsible other-fashioning: Comments on Todd Lekan’s William James and the Moral Life. William James Studies 19: 59-67.
2023. James and Waismann on temperament in philosophy. The Pluralist 18: 46-65
2023/2019. The pragmatic theory of truth. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
2022. Pragmatism about truth-makers. Contemporary Pragmatism 19: 350-370.
2022. The less said the better: Dewey, Neurath, and mid-century theories of truth. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie. 104: 164-191
2021. What we talk about when we talk about truth: Dewey, Wittgenstein, and the pragmatic test. International Journal of Philosophical Studies 29: 159-180.
2020. Pragmatic accounts of belief and truth: A response to Aaron Zimmerman’s Belief: a Pragmatic Picture. William James Studies 16: 39-56.
2020. Democracy, truth, and understanding: an epistemic argument for democracy. In M.C. Navin and R. Nunan (Eds.), Democracy, Populism, and Truth. New York: Springer.
2020. A Common-sense pragmatic theory of truth. Philosophia 48: 463-481.
2020. Truth and the Goldilocks principle. Think 19: 65-74.
2020. William James and the will to alieve. Contemporary Pragmatism 17: 1-20.
2019. Playing fair by William James. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 55(1): 65-70.
2018. Even worse than it seems: Transformative experience and the selection problem. Journal of Philosophical Research 43: 113-124.
2018. Did Dewey have a theory of truth? Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 54(1): 39-63
2018. The case for discussion-intensive pedagogy. APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy 17(2): 5-11.
2018. The Pragmatic origins of ethical expressivism: Stevenson, Dewey, and the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science. In S. Marchetti and M. Baghramian (Eds.), Pragmatism and the European Traditions: Encounters with Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology Before the Great Divide. New York: Routledge.
2018. From global expressivism to global pragmatism. Metaphilosophy 49: 71-89.
2017. A pragmatic argument for a pragmatic theory of truth. Contemporary Pragmatism 14: 135-156.
2014. Radical pragmatism: An operator’s guide. European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 6: 125-144.
Teaching
I regularly teach courses on epistemology, American philosophy, logic, and contemporary philosophy. The most recent syllabi for these and other courses are below.
In Spring 2024 I taught a seminar on the Philosophy of Punishment. The syllabus for that course is here.
Syllabi
Contemporary Philosophy(.pdf)
Knowledge and Truth (.pdf)
American Philosophy(.pdf)
Introduction to Philosophy(.pdf)
Modern Philosophy(.pdf)
Crime, Justice & Ethics (.pdf)
