Education
2013-present PhD Candidate (ABD), Philosophy, Brown University
2013-2018 M.A., Philosophy, Brown University
2011-2013 M.A., Philosophy, Carleton University (with Distinction;
nominated for Senate Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work -
Master’s)
2009-2011 B.A. Honours, Philosophy, Carleton University (with Highest Honours)
Research Interests
AOS: Metaethics,
Philosophy of Action
AOC: Philosophy
of Language, Formal and Informal Logic, Buddhist Ethics and
Metaphysics
Teaching Experience
Instructor
2018 Introduction to Buddhist Philosophy, Brown University
2012 Introduction to Philosophy, Enrichment Mini-Course
Program, Carleton
University
Teaching Assistant
2017 ‘Epistemology’, Department of Philosophy, Brown University
2016 ‘The Nature of Morality’, Department of Philosophy, Brown University
2016 ‘The Place of Persons’, Department of Philosophy, Brown University
2015 ‘The Meaning of Life’, Department of Philosophy, Brown University
2015 ‘Early Modern Philosophy’, Department of Philosophy, Brown University
2014 ‘Formal Logic’, Department of Philosophy, Brown University
2013 'History of Ethics’, Department of Philosophy, Carleton University
2012 'Introduction to Logic’, Department of Philosophy, Carleton University
2012 'Environmental Ethics’, Department of Philosophy, Carleton University
2011 'Language and Communication’, Department of Philosophy,
Carleton
University
2010 'Theoretical Philosophy’, Department of Philosophy, Carleton University
Publications
2018 “Spinoza and
Orientalized Spinozism: Shadows of Buddhism and Other
Asian Themes in the
Ethics and Its Eighteenth-Century Rehabilitation.”
(with Gordon Davis) in Ethics without Self, Dharma without Atman:
Western
and Buddhist Philosophical Traditions in Dialogue,
edited by Gordon Davis,
Springer, 2018
Papers Delivered
2015 “Righteous Anger in Theravāda and Mahāyāna Buddhism
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
47th Annual Conference;
October 1-4, 2015
2012 “An Account of Moral Responsibility Consistent with the Denial of Free
Will”
4th Annual Centre on Values and Ethics Graduate Conference;
March 10-11, 2012
Academic Honours
2013 Nominated for Senate Medal for Outstanding Graduate
Work (Master’s)
2012-2013 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Graduate
Scholarship (SSHRC; Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate
Scholarship)
2012-2013 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (Awarded but declined)
2011-2012 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2010-2011 Carol Shields Scholarship
Academic Committees and Societies
2016-2017 President, Philosophy Graduate Forum, Brown University
2015-2017 Colloquium Committee, Brown University
2010-2013 Centre on Values and Ethics, Carleton University
2010-2011 Curriculum Committee, Department of Philosophy, Carleton
University
2010-2011 Departmental Student Representative (Philosophy), Carleton
Academic
Student Government, Carleton University
2010-2011 Vice-President, Communications, Carleton University Philosophy
Society
Other Professional Activities
2010-2013 Intern, Centre on Values and Ethics, Carleton University
2011-2013 Research Assistant, 'Ancient Philosophy' (Translation), Carleton
University
2011-2012 Research Assistant, 'Moral Psychology,’ Carleton University