An invitation to read philosophy with me:

Since 2018, I've offered private seminars and guided readings for individuals and groups. All courses can be made ab initio, presupposing only the desire to read closely and/or to learn some math, as applicable. Alternatively, we can jump in at the postgraduate level. Please contact for further discussion.

Here are some perpetual seminars around things I'm always working on, and therefore always glad to be discussing:

Metalogic. Beginning and intermediate mathematical logic and set theory, and their philosophical significance.
Philosophies of Large Cardinal Theory. Higher axioms of infinity (beyond those of standard ZFC set theory), and the growing field of their interpretation.
The Metalogical Plato. Close readings of the dialogues. Interpretations of the elenchos, incommensurability, Forms, the Idea of the Good, the One, the Dyad, and the Multiple. Creative receptions of Plato, positive and negative, in philosophy. Engagement with the secondary literature as desired.
Badiou's Being & Event Trilogy
Classics of Continental Philosophy (Metalogical Interpretations) e.g., the Second Critique, selected Hegel, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Being & Time, Gravity & Grace, Being & Nothingness, The Unfinished System of Non-Knowledge, selected Lacan, the Cahiers pour l'Analyse group, Totality & Infinity, Difference & Repetition, Margins of Philosophy, The Coming Community... )
The Metalogical Sartre. Sartre's early phenomenological writings through the dialectical turn. Special attention to the ontology and metaethics of Being & Nothingness and the Notebooks for an Ethics. Engagement with the secondary literature as desired.
Classical and Contemporary Readings in Metaethics

Here are some recent experiments:

Philosophy of Science through Metalogic
Philosophy of Mind through Metalogic
Classical Asian Philosophy through Metalogic
Philosophy since 2000

And a real roll of the dice:

Philosophy since 2022. We read and discuss very recent philosophy. Nothing over a year old. Obviously, no expertise is pretended.

C.V. (Teaching)

AOS: Mathematical Philosophy, Plato, Continental Philosophy (esp. Sartre, Badiou)

AOC: Logic, Classical Asian Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind

Appointments

Researcher, University of New Mexico (current)
Instructor, Study Groups in Psychoanalysis and Politics
Instructor, Desert Academy, Santa Fe
Instructor, Global Center for Advanced Studies
Teaching Affiliate, New Centre for Research & Practice
Instructor, West Chester University
Instructor, Villanova University
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Villanova University

Courses Taught

Primarily Graduate

Badiou’s The Immanence of Truths. Study Groups in Psychoanalysis & Politics, in association with Subset of Theoretical Practice
The Future of Intelligence. Co-instructor with Simon DeDeo. New Centre for Research & Practice
Philosophy & Mathematics. Co-instructor with Paul Livingston and Rocco Gangle. Global Center for Advanced Studies
Consequences of Diagonalization. New Centre for Research & Practice

Primarily Undergraduate

History of Ancient Philosophy. West Chester University
Philosophy of Mind. (Upper-division) Villanova University
Logic and Critical Thinking. Villanova University
Introduction to Philosophy. (Standard and Accelerated) Villanova University
Teaching Assistant: Philosophy of Mind. Villanova University
Teaching Assistant: Philosophy of Film. Villanova University
Teaching Assistant: Intro. to Philosophy. Villanova University
Tutor: Villanova University Writing Center

Secondary

IB Philosophy Years 1-2 HL and Theory of Knowledge. Desert Academy, Santa Fe.
World Religions. St. Maria Goretti HS
Algebra. Bais Ha’Medrash & Mesivta of Baltimore
Teaching Assistant: Probability & Game Theory. Johns Hopkins CTY
Teaching Assistant: Ethics. Johns Hopkins CTY

Guest Lectures

“Plato’s So-Called Unwritten Doctrines,” for graduate seminar The One and the Multiple. UNM
“Introductory Remarks on Large Cardinals,” for graduate seminar, History & Philosophy of Mathematics. UNM
“Turing Machines and The Halting Problem,” for graduate seminar, History & Philosophy of Mathematics. UNM
“Consequences of Gödel’s Theorems in the Philosophy of Mind 1-2.” Pair of guest lectures for graduate seminar, Theory of the Non-Subject: Language and Consciousness. UNM
“Leibniz’s Discourse on Metaphysics 1-2.” Pair of guest lectures for upper-division Modern Philosophy. UNM.
Round-table on mathematics & philosophy from Euclid to Gödel for undergraduates & graduate students. University of New Mexico
“Dennett’s “Quining Qualia”” for upper-division Philosophy of Mind. VU
“Blade Runner: The Lyric Poem of Functionalism,” for upper-division Philosophy of Mind. VU.
“Structuralism & Film / Is There a Language of Film?” for undergraduate Philosophy of Film. Villanova University.

Seminars for St. John’s College Alumni Association: Cantor’s Theorem, Plato’s Ion, Bataille’s Theory of Religion, Plato’s Phaedrus, Plato’s Charmides, Hofstadter’s “What Is It Like To Be A Strange Loop?”

Independent teaching practice since 2018.

Education

M.S. Mathematics. University of North Alabama (in progress)
Ph.D. Philosophy. Villanova University
M.A. Philosophy. Villanova University
M.A. Eastern Classics. St. John’s College, Santa Fe
B.S. summa cum laude Philosophy & Mathematics. Towson University

Teaching Statement

(Coming soon)

metalogic/metaethics philosophy of forms and self-reference

metalogic/
metaethics

philosophy of forms and self-reference