Eckerd College

Faculty Member, Letters - Philosophy

About

My publications, presentations and teaching cover a wide range of concerns, mostly on the history of philosophy and environmental philosophy.  More recently, I have begun to focus on film and philosophy, and have become interested in the ways film and new media can help revitalize teaching and learning in the humanities. 

In addition to teaching in the philosophy department at Eckerd College, in Saint Petersburg, Florida, I am also the discipline coordinator for our Film Studies minor.  I run an International Cinema series, which shows first run films from around the world (in 35mm prints) every Friday night during the regular academic year.  I am also the co-director of the "Visions of Nature/Voices of Nature," Environmental Film Festival. 

I graduated with a double major in Physics and Philosophy from Brigham Young University, working primarily with James Faulconer.  I completed a Ph.D. at The Pennsylvania State University, under the direction of John Russon.  My dissertation, entitled "Example, Experience and Experiment in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit," explored the relation between the particular and the universal in everyday experience, scientific experimentation, and moral life, as these are examined by Hegel.