Refereed Conference Presentations

HOPOS 2024 Vienna, AUST; July 2024
Contributed Paper: “Three Problems of Cause-Condition Reasoning in Mill’s System of Logic” [slides]

Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science Montreal, QC; June 2024
Contributed Paper: “Mill’s Epistemology in Logic and Liberty” [slides]

Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association Pittsburgh, PA; November 2022
Contributed Paper: “Fast and Slow Causation: An Interventionist Account of Speed of Change” [Phil-sci Archive]

Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association Baltimore, MD; November 2021
Contributed Paper: “Systemic Causes & the Epistemology of Making Systems Safer” [email for manuscript]

2021 APA Central Division Meeting Online Meeting; February 2021
Symposium: “Systemic Causes & the Epistemology of Making Systems Safer”
Commenters: Janella Baxter (Washington University), Christopher Hitchcock (CalTech)
to view a recording of this session, click here: [link to dropbox]

2020 Annual Congress of the Canadian Philosophical Association (cancelled CoVid-19)
Contributed Paper: “The Philosophical Meaning of Capricious Reasoning: Mill’s Problem of Causal Selection”

HOPOS 2020 Singapore (cancelled CoVid-19)
Contributed Paper: “The Philosophical Meaning of Capricious Reasoning: Mill’s Problem of Causal Selection”

2019 APA Central Division Meeting Denver, CO; February 2019
Symposium: “What Caused the Bhopal Disaster? The Philosophical Importance of Pragmatic Details”Commenters: Susan Sterrett (Wichita State), Marc Johansen (Creighton University)

Forum on Philosophy, Engineering, and Technology (fPET) Baltimore, MD; May 2018
Contributed Paper: “What Caused the Bhopal Disaster? Causal Selection in Safety Engineering”

Academic Service

Judge. New England Middle School Ethics Bowl, April 5, 2025, Harvard University

Judge. Rhode Island High School Ethics Bowl, February 1, 2025, Brown University

Board Member. Phil-Sci Archive, 2024-…

Faculty Sponsor. “Outdoors Club” 2021-2024, Merrimack College

Research Positions

Graduate Researcher, From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics, Templeton Project 2016-2018

Workshop Presentations

Greater Cascadia History and Philosophy of Science Workshop Vancouver, BC; May 2019: “Toward A More Millian Interpretation of Causal Selection” [link to program]

Invited Commentaries

2022 APA Pacific Division Meeting Vancouver, BC; April 2022: “Fault, Blame & Wrongdoing: Commemoration in Corrosive Communities” by Sarah Roe