About Me

I live in San Luis Obispo with my wife Elisa and daughters Elinor and Penelope. Elisa and I met as students at Kenyon College. She has an M.S. in Anthrozoology. 

Here's our cat, Georgia, trying to change my views on free will. 
 
I am originally from Chicago, Illinois. Before starting graduate school, I returned home for a couple of years and worked as a civil servant in the office of a city councilwoman. As the "director of constituent services", I learned a lot about blame!

Outside of philosophy, I like to read all sorts of non-fiction. I used to have hobbies—blues harmonica, video games—but I am now in the small-kids phase of my life. No matter. Elinor says the purpose of life is playing.
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Having never learned calculus, I am proud of my Erdős number, which in other circumstances would be trivially high: 7.