Ph.D., Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 1996
Dissertation: "Persons, Selves, and Ethical Theory"
Committee: Gary Watson (Chair), Alan Nelson, Andrew Cross
M.A., Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 1993
B.A., Philosophy, Houghton College, Houghton, N.Y., 1985
Sooner High School (Go Spartans!), Bartlesville, OK, graduated in 1982
Stout Jr. High School, Dearborn, MI, graduated in 1979
Snow Elementary School, Dearborn, MI, "graduated" in 1976.
Home Schooled, 1964-1970. Majored in Crayon/Wall Art, minored in doo-doo jokes. Graduated summa cum laude.
PUBLICATIONS
"Caring, Identification, and Agency," Ethics, October 2003 (available here in RTF format); if you or your library has a subscription to Ethics, you may click here for the official copy."The Irrelevance/Incoherence of Non-Reductivism About Personal Identity," Philo, Fall-Winter 2002.
"Why We Can't All Just Get Along: Human Variety & Game Theory in Hobbes's State of Nature" (with Graham G. Dodds), The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Fall 2002."Disintegrated Persons & Distributive Principles," Ratio, March 2002.
"Justifying Justification: Identity, Community, and Moral Motivation," The Proceedings of the IX International Kant Congress, November, 2001.
"Review of Richard Keshen's Reasonable Self-Esteem," Mind, October 2000.
"Selves and Moral Units," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, December 1999.
AREAS OF RESEARCH/SPECIALIZATION