Academic CV (2024)

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Visiting Assistant Professor, General Education, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR (2023-)

Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR (2022)

• Dissertation: “Ethics for the Depressed: A Value Ethics of Engagement,” supervised by Mark Johnson, Beata Stawarska, Colin Koopman, and Nicholas Allen

M.A., Philosophy, New School for Social Research, New York, NY (2014)

B.A., Philosophy, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (2008)

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, History of 20th-Century Philosophy

AREAS OF COMPETENCE: Ethics of Technology, AI Ethics, Business Ethics, Bioethics, Feminist Philosophy, Environmental Philosophy, Philosophical Logic

PUBLICATIONS

Current Works in Progress

• “AI opacity and the ‘hard problem’ of autonomy in personalized education,” accepted for colloquium presentation at the 2025 APA Pacific Division Meeting

• “Critical Phenomenology of Value and Particularist Value Ethics”

Articles and Book Chapters

• “The pre-intentional, existential feelings, and existential dispositions,” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (2023).

• “Vigilant Inquiry and Qualitative Disunity,” Contemporary Pragmatism 20 (2023): 246-270

• “Scheler’s Phenomenology of Value as Value Pluralism,” in Max Scheler: His Thought and Influence, ed. Susi Gottloeber, Springer (2022): 221-238

• “Realism and Receptivity: The Role of the Transcendent in Pragmatism,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 2014 Winter, Vol.50(1)

Book Reviews and Editorials

• Review of M. Baghramian, S. Marchetti (eds.), Pragmatism and the European Traditions: Encounters with Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology Before the Great Divide, Phenomenological Reviews (Dec. 28, 2018), retrieved from http://reviews.ophen.org/2018/12/28/maria-baghramian-sarin-marchetti-eds-pragmatism-and-the-european-traditions/

• “Editors’ Introduction: Reflections on the First Issue,” with Martina Ferrari, Sarah McLay, Shannon Hayes, Kaja Jenssen Rathe, and Amie Zimmer, Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2018)

• Review of F. Kersten, Space, Time, and Other: A Study in the Method and Limits of Transcendental Phenomenology, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 2018

PRESENTATIONS

Upcoming Conferences and Presentations

• 74th Annual Northwest Philosophy Conference, November 1-2, 2024

• 2025 APA Pacific Division Meeting, Colloquium, April 16-20, 2025

Selected International Conferences

• “Critical Phenomenology of Value and Contingent Value Ethics,” Nordic Society for Phenomenology 20th Annual Conference, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, Summer 2024

• “Bridging the Pragmatic Divide over Normativity,” Pragmatism and the European Traditions: 1950s-today, Sapienza University, Rome, Fall 2019

• “Self-Care of Depressed Persons as Modeling Care for the ‘Inhuman,’” The Inhuman Gaze and Perceiving Otherwise, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, Summer 2018

• “Melancholic Metaethics: Phenomenology of Depression and Moral Motivation,” Understanding Value VI, University of Sheffield, Summer 2017

• “Impure Phenomenologies,” Issues in Contemporary Phenomenology Conference, University of Warsaw, Spring 2017

• “A Pragmatic Method for Phenomenological Psychology,” Pragmatism and Phenomenology Workshop: Part Deux at the Universtiy of Waterloo, Spring 2017

• “The Redemption of Feeling: Non-Formal Ethics and Value Pluralism,” Scheler Colloquium on “Max Scheler: His Thought and Influence,” University of Maynooth, Winter 2016

• “The Transcendental Gap: The Possibility of the Epoché for Phenomenology and Cognitive Science,” Copenhagen Summer School in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind, Center of Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, Summer 2016

• “Touch, Among Others: Nancy and the Critique of the Privilege of Presence,” Collegium Phaenomenologicum Participants Conference, Citta di Castello, Italy, Summer 2016

• “The Transcendental Gap: The Possibility of the Epoché for Phenomenology and Cognitive Science,” Phenomenology and Cognitive Science Conference at the University of Sussex, Summer 2016

• “The Pragmatism and Problems of Ecological Thinking,” SWIP Ireland Annual Conference on “Ways of Knowing: Feminist Philosophy of Science and Epistemology,” Winter 2015

• “Sympathy and Inquiry: A Reinterpretation of Jane Addams on Epistemic Injustice,” II European Pragmatism Conference at EHESS, Paris, Fall 2015

• “Embodiment and Alterity: Merleau-Ponty, Mead, and the Need for Receptivity,” Phenomena at the Margins Conference at the University of Sussex, Summer 2014

• “The First Person without First Philosophy,” Phenomenology and Naturalism Conference at the University of Johannesburg, Spring 2014

Selected National and Local Conferences and Presentations

• “Procedural Ethics and Moral Machines: An Introduction to AI Ethics and Natural Language Processing,” Lewis and Clark College, CS 111 Guest Lecture, Fall 2023 and Spring 2024

• “Experiences of Depression, Existential Feelings, and Existential Change,” Lewis and Clark College Philosophy Colloquium, November 17, 2023

• “Hypermoralized Deliberation: A ‘Quasi-Belief’ Model of Depressive Loss of Motivation,” 73rd Annual Northwest Philosophy Conference, November 3-4, 2023

• “Ethics and Exploitation: An Introduction to Business Ethics,” SHSU, Huntsville, TX, Spring 2023

• “Ethics for the Depressed,” Vital Thoughts Online Seminars, Summers 2021-2022 “Against Transcendental Argumentation: C. I. Lewis and Paraconsistent Logics,” Summer Institute in American Philosophy, University of Oregon, Summer 2017

• “Touch, Among Others: Nancy and the Critique of the Privilege of Presence,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) Fifty-Fifth Annual Meeting, Fall 2016

• “Biological Value and Dewey’s Concept of Growth,” Pragmatism and the Brain Conference at UNC Asheville, Summer 2016

• “Sympathy and Inquiry: Jane Addams and Epistemic Injustice,” Pulling from Pragmatism Conference at the New School for Social Research, Spring 2015

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Independent Instructor

• DSCI 240: Data for Good, Spring 2025

• CORE 121: The Meaning of Health, Fall 2024 and Spring 2025

• CORE 121: Procedural Ethics and Moral Machines, Fall 2023 and Spring 2024

• PHIL 120: Ethics of Enterprise and Exchange, Fall 2018

• PHIL 110: Human Nature, Fall 2017

• PHIL 170: Philosophy of Love and Sex, Winter 2017

• PHIL 340: Philosophy of Religion, Winter 2016

Assistant Instructor

• HUM 101: Humanities I, Fall 2019

• PHIL 407/507: Advanced Logic, Winter 2019

• PHIL 322: Philosophy of the Arts, Spring 2018

• PHIL 325: Logic, Inquiry, Argument, Winter 2018

• PHIL 320: Environmental Philosophy, Fall 2016

• PHIL 110: Human Nature, Fall 2015

• PHIL 170: Philosophy of Love and Sex, Spring 2015 and Spring 2016

• PHIL 102: Ethics, Winter 2015, Spring 2017

• PHIL 101: Philosophical Problems, Fall 2014

• ULEC 2600: Cinemetrics: Measuring Acts of Creation, Spring 2014

ACADEMIC SERVICE

• Advisor and Co-author for Nate Berol ’27, “Empowering Consumers in the Age of Big Data: A Framework for Privacy Protection”

• Editor and Co-founder, Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology, peer reviewed open-access journal at www.punctajournal.org, 2018-Present

• Critical Phenomenology Research Group Coordinator, Philosophy Department, University of Oregon, Fall 2017-Spring 2019

• Research Assistant, Index Preparation for Mark Johnson’s Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason, Spring 2017

• Diversity Committee Representative, Philosophy Department, University of Oregon, Fall 2016-Spring 2017

• Alternate Member of the Committee of the Whole, Philosophy Department, University of Oregon, Fall 2015-Spring 2016

• Graduate Studies Coordinator for the Philosophy Department at the University of Oregon, Fall 2014-Spring 2015

• Co-Founder of the New York Phenomenology Research Group, Publicity Officer from 2011-2012, President from 2012-2013, Coordinator for Annual Conferences 2012-2014

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Health + Humanities Community Connections Faculty Grant ($4,500, in process)

• 2019 Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences Award ($5,400)

• Oregon Humanities Center’s Graduate Research Support Fellowship ($1,000)

• University of Oregon Graduate School’s Special “Opps” Travel & Research Award ($1,000)

• Participant in Collegium Phaenomenologicum, 41st Annual Session, 2016

• University of Oregon Graduate Teaching Fellowship, 2014-2019

• New School for Social Research Merit Tuition Scholarship, 2011-2014