I am originally from Los Angeles, California. I studied English, Mathematics, and Philosophy at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and UCLA. In Summer 2000 I moved to Syracuse, New York where I received my Ph.D. in philosophy in Spring 2007 from the philosophy department at Syracuse University.

My dissertation was on the sorites paradox and the problem of vagueness, entitled An Anti-Bivalentist Solution to the Sorites Paradox (pdf). I argued that by extending classical logic and semantics to coherently deny bivalence one has the logical resources to resolve the sorites paradox. This non-classical solution to the sorites paradox respects our ordinary intuitions about sentences that seem neither-true-nor-false, such as "Divia is young", said of a thirty-year old women and has the logical apparatus to handle higher-order vagueness (e.g. at some times, it was unclear whether it was unclear whether Divia was young), irrespective of how many levels exist.

My research interests are in contemporary analytic metaphysics/epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophical logic. My research can be classified into three projects: developing a non-bivalent logic and semantics (i.e. not every sentence is either true or false) in response to the sorites paradox and vagueness in natural language; defending the claim that logic has a normative relation to thought; and defending the claim that cosmic fine-tuning is a fact that needs to be explained. I am also interested in philosophical methodology (e.g. the nature and role of thought-experiments in philosophical reasoning), philosophy of science, just war theory, and modern philosophy.

I am currently a visiting professor in the philosophy department at the University of Alabama. Previously, in Fall 2006 and Spring 2007, I was a part-time instructor in the philosophy department at SUNY Oswego.