Hello There

I, owner of the face looming above, am in the PhD program in Florida State's Department of Philosophy. Broadly speaking, I am interested in how people — intentionally and unintentionally — choose to tell the story of their lives and place their faith in values despite a world of uncertainty. This leads me to areas of study like:

• Moral Psychology (how and when to blame, to love, to forgive, etc)

• The Philosophy of Cognitive Science (how to reconcile the way we talk about memory, imagination, and values with the 'hard science')

• Identity (the ways in which people define themselves and how those definitions influence their behavior)