I'm an author, public speaker, and Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Research Scholar of Public Philosophy at Palm Beach Atlantic University in Florida.
I also serve as the Franz Brentano Fellow at the Martin Institute for Christianity & Culture, and Research Fellow at EIDOS.
Main curiosities: I develop projects focused on understanding what the nature of consciousness reveals about:
Self What are we?
Knowledge How do we know reality?
Meaning What makes for a meaningful life?
Technology How can developing technology help or harm us?
God Can we know that God exists and how God relates to us?
I also love robots and Indian food.
Updates
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Named 2022 Early-Career Philosopher of Religion by Tyndale House, University of Cambridge.
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Wiley-Blackwell to publish The Substance of Consciousness: A Comprehensive Defense of Substance Dualism, co-authored with J. P. Moreland (scheduled release, August 2023).
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Delivered the 2022 Faith & Society Lecture at Ashland University
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Video Available Here.
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Education
PhD, Philosophy
Baylor University - 2020
Dissertation: The Conscious Mind Unified
*Awarded Outstanding Dissertation of the Year
Co-Directors: Timothy O'Connor & Alexander Pruss
Committee: C. Stephen Evans, Todd Buras, and
neuroscientist Charles Weaver III
MA, Philosophy
Baylor University - 2018
MA, Philosophy of Religion & Ethics
Biola University - 2013
BA, Philosophy
University of California, Irvine - 2010
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Publications
Books
2023
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The Substance of Consciousness: A Comprehensive Defense of Contemporary Substance Dualism. Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming, August 2023.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
2021
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“Living Accountably: Accountability as a Virtue.” With C. Stephen Evans. International Philosophical Quarterly.
2019
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“Alister McGrath’s Anti-Mind-Body Dualism: Neuroscientific and Philosophical Quandaries for Christian Physicalism.” Trinity Journal. [download]
2018
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“The Primacy of the Mental: From Russellian Monism to Substance Dualism.” Philosophia Christi. [download]
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“Intentionality Contra Physicalism: On the Mind’s Independence from the Body.” With Dallas Willard. Philosophia Christi.
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“The Sanctifying Work of the Holy Spirit: Revisiting Alston’s Interpersonal Model.” With Steve Porter. The Journal of Analytic Theology. [download]
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“Responding to N. T. Wright’s Rejection of the Soul.” Heythrop Journal. [download]
2017
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“The Argument from Reason, and Mental Causal Drainage: A Reply to van Inwagen.” With Todd Buras. Philosophia Christi.[download]
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“Natural Theology, Evidence, and Epistemic Humility.” With Trent Dougherty. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion.
2016
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“Who You Could Have Known: Divine Hiddenness, Epistemic Counterfactuals, and the Recalcitrant Nature of Natural Theology.” With Derek McAllister. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion. [download]
2015
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“What Does it Mean to Be a Bodily Soul?” With C. Stephen Evans. Philosophia Christi. [download]
2013
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“Eternal Life as Knowledge of God: An Epistemology of Knowledge by Acquaintance and Spiritual Formation.” Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care. [download]
Book Chapters
2021
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“Virtue Formation and The Sanctifying Work of the Holy Spirit.” With Steven L. Porter. Faith and Virtue Formation. Oxford University Press.
2018
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“Against Emergent Dualism.” The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism. Wiley Blackwell. [download]
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“Dismantling Bodily Resurrection Arguments Against Mind-Body Dualism.” Christian Physicalism? Rowman & Littlefield.
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“Neuroscience, Spiritual Formation, and Bodily Souls: A Critique of Christian Physicalism.” With C. Stephen Evans. Christian Physicalism? Rowman & Littlefield. [download]
Work in Progress
Books
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What is Consciousness? A New Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind.
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The Conscious Person Unified: On Subjects of Phenomenal Unity
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Positions Held
Fellowships
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Accountability as a Relational Virtue. Baylor University, 2020-2021.
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Graduate Research Fellow
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SCP Science Cross-Training (neuroscience). John Tempelton Foundation, 2018-2019.
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Teaching Positions
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Baylor University
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Teacher of Record, 2018-2020.
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Azusa Pacific University
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Instructor of Philosophy, 2013-2015.
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Biola University
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Instructor of Philosophy, 2014-2015.
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Public Facing Philosophy
Podcasts
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