I received my Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Alberta and did a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto. I have tutored at Athabasca since 2010, and wrote our PHIL 254 (Symbolic Logic).Much of my research has been on intellectual virtues—skills that we employ in reasoning and knowledge production. These days I am mainly interested in using this theoretical work as a foundation for pedagogical strategies in logic and critical thinking. I also write speculative fiction.
Research interests
Logic
Epistemology
Cognitive science
Educational credentials
B.A. (Honours) University of Toronto
M.A. University of Alberta
Ph.D. University of Alberta
“The Erratics”. When Worlds Collide, edited by S. C. Butler and Joshua Palmatier. Zombies Need Brains (2021), pp. 1-18.
“Intellectual Virtue, Now and Again”. Epistemic Situationism, edited by Mark Alfano and Abrol Fairweather. Oxford (2017), pp. 116-134.
“Metacognition and Intellectual Virtue”. Virtue Epistemology Naturalized: Bridges Between Virtue Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, edited by Abrol Fairweather. Springer (2014), pp. 33-48.
“Unifying the Intellectual Virtues.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 83:1 (2011), pp. 106-128.
“How to Make the Generality Problem Work for You.” Acta Analytica 24:4 (2009), pp. 275-286.
With F. J. Pelletier. “Fregean Algebraic Tableaux: Automating Inferences in Fuzzy Propositional Logic”. Short Paper Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning, edited by G. Sutcliffe and A. Voronkov (2006), pp. 43-48.