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I am pleased to announce that I have recently accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Saint Joseph's University, and will join their faculty in the Fall of 2012. In August 2011, I defended my dissertation, titled "Marx and Morality," in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. I have research interests in moral, political, and social philosophy. I am particularly interested in the question of how different economic and social arrangements inhibit or promote the realization of values such as equality, freedom, and human development. In my dissertation, I show how Marx's political program coheres with a moral theory on which the highest end for human beings is the achievement of a society in which humans live in accordance with their nature as social beings, with rational control over their conditions of existence, and the means to develop as "rich individuals" with a broad and expanding range of capacities. This orientation informs both my work on understanding Marx and my approach to a range of issues in moral and political philosophy, such as the status of human rights, the relationship between freedom, determinism, and responsibility, how to conceive of and struggle for social justice, and more fundamentally, the question of how we ought to live. |
My Curriculum Vitae (last updated March 2012) |
