I recently completed a dissertation in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago, graduating in June 2008. My dissertation is titled: Kant’s Transcendental Deductions of the Categories.
Dissertation Committee
The members of my committee are: James Conant (director), Robert Pippin, Michael Kremer, and Sebastian Rödl (Basel).
Research Areas
My Areas of Specialization are Kant and Analytical Kantianism. My Areas of Competence are Early Modern Philosophy, History of Analytic Philosophy, and Ancient Philosophy.
Education
- Ph.D., Philosophy: University of Chicago (June 2008)
- B.A., Philosophy: McGill University (1999)
Graduate Courses
Courses Taken for Credit:
- Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (Conant)
- Neokantian Ethics (Vogler)
- Hobbes (Garber & Green)
- Quine and Davidson (Haugeland)
- Late Kuhn (Haugeland & Conant)
- Philosophy of Science (Garber)
- Moral Responsibility (Green)
- Aesthetics / Theory of Criticism (Cohen)
- Darwin, On the Origin of Species (Richards)
- Elementary Logic (Cohen)
Courses Audited:
- Continental Rationalism (Garber)
- Early Analytic Philosophy (Kremer)
- Varieties of Skepticism (Conant & Putnam)
- Hermeneutics (Forster)
- Wittgenstein (Conant)
- Protagoras / Theaetetus (Barney)
- Wittgenstein Workshop (Conant & Linsky)
- The Self (Larmore)
- Conceptual Development of Physics (Stein)
- The Infinite (Tait)
Awards and Honors
- H.B. Earhart Fellowship: Earhart Foundation, 2005-06 and 2006-07
- Ames Dissertation Fellowship: Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 2004-05
- Manley Thompson Memorial Prize: Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 2002 (Awarded by the Department of Philosophy for the best preliminary essay–equivalent to qualifying exams–in that year of the program)
- Ames Summer Research Fellowship: University of Chicago, 2001
- Century Fellowship: University of Chicago, 1999 to 2004 (The University of Chicago’s most prestigious fellowship for entering graduate students in philosophy, granting five years of funding along with opportunities for standalone teaching)
- Ross Prize in Philosophy: McGill University, 1998 (Awarded by the Department of Philosophy to the top undergraduate student entering the final year of the BA Program)
Professional Experience
- Philosophy Department German Language Reading Group: Graduate Coordinator, 2003 and 2004
- Philosophy Department Faculty Hiring Committee: Graduate Representative, 2003
- Member: American Philosophical Association
- Member: North American Kant Society
Language Competences
- German: good reading and translating skills
- Ancient Greek: some reading knowledge