Th.M., Interdisciplinary Studies, Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2007
M.C.S., New Testament Studies, Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2005
B.A., Religion and Music, Whitworth University, Spokane, Washington, 1998
Selected works
鈥淕etting into the Game of Tradition-Constituted Moral Inquiry: Does MacIntyre鈥檚 Particularism Offer a Rational Way In?鈥 International Philosophical Quarterly, March 2014
"Poetic Representation and Existential Time: On Kierkegaard's Reduction of Literary Art to Subjective Communication," History of Philosophy Quarterly, vol. 30, no.3, July 2013
"Passionate Epistemology: Kierkegaard on Skepticism, Approximate Knowledge, and Higher Existential Truth," Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 40 no.1, 2013
"Transformation in the Wasteland? Remembrance, Naming and Charitable Action in the The Road," Film and Philosophy vol. 17, 2013
"Walker Percy's 'Theory of Man' and the Elimination of Virtue," In Peter Lawler and Brian Smith (eds.) A Political Companion to Walker Percy. Series: Political Companions to Great American Authors, Patrick Deneen (ed.) University of Kentucky Press, 2013
"Kierkegaard and Confucius: Congruence on relational selfhood, harmonious agency, and ethical relation to others," First International Conference on Kierkegaard and Chinese Culture, Hong Kong, May 2013
"Kierkegaard on Approximation Knowledge and Existential Truth: An Incompatibilist Interpretation," American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Seattle, Washington, 2012
"Appreciating Virtuous Activity: Rethinking the Traditional Virtue-Continence Distinction," Baylor University Graduate Colloquium, 2012
"Getting into the Game of Tradition-Constituted Moral Inquiry: Does MacIntyre's Particularism Offer a Rational Way In?" International Society for MacIntyrean Inquiry, 5th International Conference, Providence College, 2011
"The Concept of Appreciation and its Ethical Dimensions," Baylor University Philosophy Club, Baylor University, 2011
"MacIntyre's Particularism about Practical Rationality: Does it Cosign Fragmented Modern Selves to Homelessness?" 44th Anniversary Meeting, North Texas Philosophical Society, University of North Texas, 2011
"The Fragmented Modern Self and the Problem of Tradition Allegiance: A Critical Defense of MacIntyrean Resources for Inquiry," Society of Christian Philosophers Mountain-Pacific Regional Conference, George Fox University, 2011
Review of Essays on the History of Ethics by Michael Slote, Oxford University Press, in The Review of Metaphysics, vol. 63 no.4, 952-954, 2010