Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D, University of California, Berkeley, 2001
Appointed at UMass: 2001

Areas of interest:

ancient philosophy, epistemology, 17th and 18th century philosophy

Current research:

Ancient scepticism, Aristotle's metaphysics

On-Line Papers:

"Academic Arguments for the Indiscernibility Thesis," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 86 (2005): 493-517.

"Stoic Epistemology and the Limits of Externalism," Ancient Philosophy 25 (2005): 383-401.

"Pyrrhonian Scepticism and the Search for Truth," Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 30 (2006): 337-360.

"Substantial Universals in Aristotle's 'Categories'," forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy.

"Descartes and the Legacy of Ancient Scepticism," forthcoming in J. Broughton and J. Carriero (eds.), A Companion to Descartes (Blackwell).