I’m a philosopher serving as Visiting Instructor at UMass Lowell (formerly, Northeastern University, Providence , and Merrimack College). I develop and teach course on the ethics and epistemology of technology, the history of philosophy, and other applied philosophical topics. I am currently teaching “Engineering and Ethics” at UML.

In my dissertation, I developed a pragmatist answer to John Stuart Mill’s “problem of causal selection” based on case studies of technological disasters, and the sciences and engineering of safety. My article in Philosophy of Science about the Bhopal gas tragedy is the molten core of this work [open access].

Now, I research how best to teach philosophical thought to engineers. I am also interested in Mill’s empiricist epistemology, thoughts on liberty, and he saw their interrelation. Drawing inspiration from Mill, as well as the works of Lewis Mumford, Neil Postman, Ivan Illich, and Joseph Weizenbaum, I am exploring the authoritarian tendencies of technologies and how engineers might design for liberty.

Recently I began collaborating on my most vital philosophical project: raising my son with my wife, Mariesa. So far, this project has raised a number of philosophical questions, such as “why isn’t there more work on the epistemology of parenting?” and “what does it mean that you are nothing for infinite time, then must suddenly learn to burp?