Assistant Professor at University of Missouri, Department of Philosophy

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at University of Missouri (Mizzou)! I am also a member of the History Philosophy Culture Working Group of the Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

Last February through June of 2023, I participated in a research group in Germany on “The Epistemology of Evidence-Based Policy: How Philosophy can Facilitate the Science-Policy Interface”, hosted by the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at the University of Bielefeld. Prior to my employment at Mizzou, in the 2021-2022 academic year, I was a postdoc in the Department of Philosophy at University of Illinois, Chicago on the Cosmology Beyond Spacetime project. Before then, I was a (virtual) postdoc in the 2020-2021 pandemic academic year at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. I completed my graduate studies in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at University of California, Irvine, with an emphasis in Physics. My dissertation, supervised by Jim Weatherall and defended in Summer 2020, concerned the role played by our current physical theories in the creation of a future theory of quantum gravity.

I am married to my sometimes co-author Hannah Rubin, a philosopher of science and Associate Professor, also at University of Missouri. Click through to her website to find pictures of our dog, Dot, who has yet to join us on a paper.