Welcome to my website. I teach philosophy at Auburn University. Before that I was a grad student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. I specialize in philosophy of religion and ethics. I live in Birmingham, Alabama with my wife and daughter.

Research
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Murdering an Accident Victim: A New Objection to the Bare-Difference Argument. Forthcoming. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 1-20. (link)

Aquinas and Gregory the Great on the Puzzle of Petitionary Prayer. 2018. Ergo 5: 407-418. (link)
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From Isolation to Skepticism. 2016. Erkenntnis. 81: 649-668. (draft)

Giving up Omnipotence. 2014. Canadian Journal of Philosophy. 44: 97-117. (draft)

An Adamsian Theory of Intrinsic Value. 2011. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. 14: 273-289.

Richard Joyce’s New Objections to the Divine Command Theory. 2010. Journal of Religious Ethics. 38: 189-196.

Good News for the Logical Autonomy of Ethics. 2009. Argumentation 23: 277-283.

Haybron on Mood Propensity and Happiness. 2009. Journal of Happiness Studies, 10: 215-228.

'Is’-‘Ought’ Derivations and Ethical Taxonomies. 2008. Philosophia, 36: 545-566.
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Teaching
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Auburn University
PHIL 1060 Philosophy East and West (x8), (Spring 2017, Spring 2019) 
PHIL 1030 Ethics and the Health Sciences (x12), (Fall 2017-Fall 2018) 
PHIL 1080 Introduction to Philosophy of Religion (x4), (Fall 2016) 
PHIL 1040 Business Ethics (x16), (Fall 2014-Spring 2016) 

University of Massachusetts
PHIL 336 Existential Philosophy (x2), (Spring 2011, Spring 2013) 
PHIL 164 Medical Ethics (x3), (Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2012) 
PHIL 160 Introduction to Ethics (x3), (Spring 2009, Fall 2010) 
PHIL 110 Introduction to Logic (online), (Fall 2007)

Western New England University
PHIL 208 Ethics (x7), (Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Spring 2014)
PHIL 110 Critical Thinking, (Fall 2013)