2024
Aesthetic Mechanisms of Dehumanization in the Prison Industrial Complex
- 2023- Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC (Visiting Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department)
- 2024- Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC (Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department) (TT)
2023
Forgiveness, Revenge, and the Shape of a Life
- 2024- Calvin University, Grand Rapids, MI (Post Doc)
- 2023- Taylor University, Upland, IN (Instructor, Philosophy Department)
2022
Protecting Artists' Moral Rights in the U.S. Legal Context
- 2022- Auburn University, Auburn, AL (Post Doc, Department of Philosophy)
Fat Justice: Mitigating Anti-Fat Bias Through Responsible Aesthetic Agency
- 2022- Auburn University, Auburn, AL (Post Doc, Department of Philosophy)
Living Well with Worries, Humility, and Other People: Learning to Reflect on Life with Analects
- 2022- Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI (Visiting Associate Professor, 3-year renewable, Department of Philosophy)
2021
Valuism: A New Theory of Knowledge
- 2017- New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, New Orleans, LA (Adjunct Professor, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary)
Disagreement, Agreement, and the Consensus Gentium Argument
- 2021- Guaranty Bank & Trust, Addison, TX (Chief Information Security Officer/Vice President)
Recognition as an Orientation: Moral and Intellectual Implications
- 2022- University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh (Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy)
Aristotle on the Metabolic Status of Perception
- 2019- Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, OK (Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department)
2020
New Directions in Religious Experience
- 2022- Lee University, Cleveland, TN (Chair, Integration and Apologetics, Assistant Professor of Religion, Culture, and Philosophy, School of Theology & Ministry)
2019
Essays on the Interpretation of Decision Theory
- 2018- University of Auburn, Auburn, AL (Instructor, Department of Philosophy)
Character and Moral Judgement: Designing Right and Wrong
- 2019- Harvard University, Cambridge, MS (Lecturer and Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, Philosophy Department)
Intellectual Virtues and Reasonable Disagreement
- 2022- Sacred Hart University, Greenwich, CT (Lecturer, Catholic Studies)
Fit, Faith, and Fear: Evidence and Evidentiaism
- 2023- Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, MN (Treasury Services also Pursuing an online degree in Cybersecurity)
2018
The Aesthetic Value of Videogames: An Analysis of Interactivity, Gameplay, and Player Performance
- 2022- University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (Prospect Research Analyst)
Everyday Strategies of Aesthetic Resistance
- 2022- University of South Florida, Tampa, FL (Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department)
2017
On the Methodological and Normative Foundations of Probabilism
- 2017- Westmoreland County Community College, Youngwood, PA. (Instructor - permanent position)
Parodies and Role of Medieval Ethical Concepts in the Ontological Argument
- 2014-TT2017-T2022- Ft. Hays State University, Hays, KS (Assistant Professor)
Realism, Natural Kinds, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- 2022- Oklahoma City, OK (Psychotherapist)
Normativity, Human Nature and Practical Reason: A New Approach to an Old Problem
- 2019- Fresno City College, Fresno, CA (Instructor, Humanities Division)
2016
Friendship and the Cultivation of Virtue
- 2006- Universisidad de Caldas, Manizalez Caldas, Colombia (Profesora, Department of Philosophy)
Skeptical Theism and Epistemic Propriety
- 2022- John and Daria Barry postdoctoral fellow with the Human Flourishing Program, Harvard University
- 2021-2022 Research Fellow, University of Notre Dame
- 2018-2021 Research Fellow, University of St. Andrews
- Previously, obtained second PhD in Analytic Theology at the University of St. Andrews
Emotions, Reasons, and Rationality
- 2019- ASR Analytics, LLC, Washington, DC (Managing Consultant)
Essays on Discourse By and About the Divine
- 2019- Lee University, Cleveland, TN (Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Theology, School of Theology & Ministry)
Trust: On Acts and Attitudes of Trust
- 2023- University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK (Permanent Lecturer, Humanities and Philosophy Department)
2015
Far From Value-Free: How a Value-Centered Scientific Pluralism Bolsters the Cognitive Credentials of Science
- 2015- San Jacinto College (Professor - renewable)
Essays on Discourse By and About the Divine
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Lee University
- Previously, obtained second PhD in Analytic Theology at the University of St. Andrews
Waging Peace: A defense of Interpresonal Pacifism
- Professor (TT), Rose State College
2014
The Value of Aesthetic Experience
- 2013- Walters State Community College (Adjunct Instructor)
- 2014- East Tennessee State University (Adjunct Instructor)
- 2015- Northeast Community College (Adjunct Instructor)
- 2016- Fort Hays State University (Assistant Professor - renewable)
- 2017- Tulsa Community College (Assistant Professor)
Disagreement and Skepticism: A Grecoian Response to the Skeptical Threat of Epistemic Superior Disagreement
- 2016- Grand Canyon University, Phoenix (TT)
2013
A Defense of Nonreductive Mental Causation
- 2013- University of Central Oklahoma (Lecturer - renewable)
2012
A Rational Problem of Evil: The Coherence of Christian Doctrine with a Broad Free Will Defense
- 2008- Tyndale University College (TT)
Climate Change and Human Rights: Creating Norms to Govern Earth's Atmosphere
- 2012- University of Tennessee (lecturer - full-time, renewable)
Heroes Great and Small: The Rebirth of Honor
- 2007-9 Stephen F. Austin State University (instructor)
2011
The Virtues of Bayesian Epistemology
- 2006- Oklahoma State University (Visiting Assistant Professor)
- 2016- San Diego Mesa College (TT)
2010
Virtue and Happiness in Plato’s Euthydemus
- 2019- University of Oklahoma (T; department chair)
- 2010-2019 Harvard University (TT)
A Convergence Account of Ethics and Aesthetics Through a Composite Understanding of Evaluative Judgments
- Hillsborough Community College (Associate Dean of Academic Affairs)
- 2010 Barry University (T)
A Moral Evaluation of Terrorism
- Red River Rehab, Pineville, LA (Personnel Director)
- 2010-2011 Kansas State University (lecturer; did not seek further academic employment)
Aristotle's 'Genetic Account' and the Problem of Induction
- 2016- University of North Carolina, Wilmington, NC (Part-Time Faculty Department of Philosophy & Religion)
- 2014-2015 Northeast Lakeview College, Universal City, TX (Adjunct Faculty)
- 2010-2014 Texas State University, San Marcos, TX (Lecturer)
- 2012 Ashford University, Clinton, IA (Online Associate Faculty)
Theism, Naturalism, and Narrative: A Linguistic and metaphysical Proposal on the Meaning of Life
- 2020- University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (Assistant Teaching Professor, Philosophy)
- 2012-2023 Program Director/Grant Manager, Center for Philosophy of Religion University of Notre Dame
- 2010-2012 Adjunct Professor, Philosophy University of Notre Dame
- 2010-2013 Grant Administrator for The Character Project at Wake Forest University
- 2009-2010 Program Administrator for the Templeton Research Fellows Program
- 2010-2012 Adjunct Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University
2009
In Him We Live and Move and Have Our Being: Philosophical Theology in Nicolas Malebranche and George Berkeley
- 2017- Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA (Adjunct Professor, Philosophy, School of Theology)
- 2019- Chamberlain University (Adjunct Online Faculty)
- 2022- Biola University (Adjunct Professor, Philosophy)
- 2017-2019 Grantham University (Part Time Faculty, Philosophy)
- 2016-2018 DeVry University (Visiting Online Professor, Philosophy)
- 2016-2018 Southern New Hampshire University (Adjunct Online Professor, Philosophy)
- 2009-2015 Biola University (TT)
2007
Continuous Creation, Persistence, and Secondary Causation: An Essay on the Metaphysics of Theism
- 2007-2008 Oklahoma Baptist University
- 2008- Lee University (TT)
- 2023- Berry College (Visiting Associate Professor)
On Middle Knowledge
- 2007- High school teacher
Socratic Definition in Plato’s Dialogues
- 2007-2010 University of Maine, Farmington
2006
Anselm’s Ontological Argument: Whole, Unified, and Complete
- Did not pursue an academic appointment
Civic Education and Self-Knowledge in Higher Education
- 2009- Staff member at OU
- 2006-2009 Accepted a non-academic job instead of pursuing an academic career; adjunct instructor at the College of Santa Fe
Divine Omniscience and the Fatalist Dilemma
- 2006- King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, PA (TT)
An Ethical Study of Genetic Intervention Based on Rawlsian Justice and on Buddhism
- 2009- Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan (TT)
Rethinking Introspection: How We Know (and Fail to Know) Our Own Minds
- University of Central Arkansas (TT)
2004
The Emergence of Objects: A Study in Constitution
- Point Loma Nazarene University (T)
2003
Naturalized Virtue Ethics
- 2003- Briar Cliff University (T)
Self-Governance in Aquinas and Pre-Modern Moral Philosophy
- 2003- North Dakota State University (TT)
Socratic Dunameis: A Tapestry of Many Threads
- 2003- California State University, Bakersfield (two-year renewable appointment)
2002
Consciousness and Personhood in Split-Brain Patients
- Southern Nazarene University (T)
The Epistemic Origins of Xenophanes' Natural Theology
- 2003- Senior Pastor, Kirkwood Baptist Church
Democratic Virtues: Solidarity, Tolerance, and Legal Obedience
- Fall 2002 University of Mobile
- Spring 2003 Spring Hill College
- 2006- St. Anthony’s High School
2001
A Whiteheadian Critique of Jaegwon Kim's Analysis of the Mind-Body Problem
- 2001-2005 Permanent position outside of academia
- 2005-2010 Pastor, Cathedral of Hope, Oklahoma City
- 2010- Senior Minister, First Central Congregational United Church of Christ, Omaha, NE
Kant and the Paradox of Self-Knowledge
- 2002- Mugla Universitesi, Turkey (permanent; T equivalent)
2000
An Essentialist Theory of Modality
- 2000- Oklahoma Baptist University (T)
The Role of Metaphysics, Common-Sense, and Interpretations of Classical Greek Philosophy in Sidgwick's Utilitarianism and Whitehead's Virtue Ethics
- 1999- Henderson State University (T)
Self Knowledge and Moral Virtue
- 1999-2001 University of Maryland College Park
- 2001-2007 George Washington University (3-year renewable appointment)
- 2007- College of Notre Dame of Maryland (T; department chair)
Minds, Causes and the Exclusion Argument
- 1999-2000 West Virginia University
- 2000-2003 James Madison University (TT)
- 2003-2008 Murray State University (TT)
- 2008- Georgia State University (full-time lecturer, continuing position)
1999
Social Explanation and Social Function: An Investigation of the Nature of Functional Explanation for the Social Sciences.
- 1999- University of Central Oklahoma (TT)
Political Principles and Indian Sovereignty
- 1996-1997 Lakehead University, Ontario
- 1997-2000 Oklahoma City University
- 2000- University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma Associate Professor (T; Director of American Indian Studies; Director of the Meredith Indigenous Humanities Center; Chair of the Policy Council and the Johnson-O'Malley Committee of the Combined Tribes of the Shawnee Area)
The Unity of Virtue Revisited: A Resolution to a Socratic Enigma
- 1996- Mesa Community College, Arizona (T)
1998
Individuality in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce
- 1995-? California State University at Pomona (TT); resigned
- Principal of Resurrection Catholic School and Assistant Superintendent of Catholic Schools in Memphis
The Adjudication of Utilitarianism and Rights in the Sphere of Health Care
- 1999- St. Gregory’s University (T; Chair of Philosophy/Humanities Division)
Horizons of the Self: An Essay in the Socio-Semiotic and Psychological Boundaries of Personal Autonomy
- 1996- Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary and Cultural Studies, College of Liberal Studies, University of Oklahoma
- 1999- Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
- Retired in 2007 from a full-time position as Director of the Pharmaceutical Diversion Division, Oklahoma State Department of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control
Psychological Ecology
- 1999-? Oklahoma State University
- 2005- South Texas College (full-time ongoing position)
Social Identity and Ethnic Formation: Some Epistemological Questions for Political Philosophy
- Did not seek academic employment; employed outside academia
1997
Art, Autonomy, and Community
- Utah Valley University (T)
Describing God
- Did not seek academic employment; employed outside academia
Holistic Realism: A Marriage of Metaphysical Realism And Conceptual Relativity
- 1997- San Joaquin Delta Community College, California (TT)
Issues Concerning Deception and Informed Consent in Psychology Experiments
- 1997-1999 Minnesota Center for Biomedical Ethics (postdoc)
- 1999- Montclair State University (T)
Kant and Religious Passion
- Employed outside academia
1996
The Philosophy of Rights of William Ernest Hocking
- Baptist College of Health Sciences, Memphis (T) until death in September 2006
1994
Power and Character: The Effects of Institutional Power on the Development of Responsibility for Character
- 1994- Potsdam College, SUNY (T; department chair)
David Hume: A Skeptic, But Not a Pyrrhonist
- 1995- Southeast Arkansas College (permanent position)
What is the Matter With Mind?
- 1994- Elizabethtown College, PA (T)
1993
Educational Theory as Political Theory
- 1994-1996 Mesa Community College, Arizona (TT)
- 1996-2000 Austin Peay State University (TT)
- 2000-? Angelo State University (TT)
- ? - American Military University (full-time faculty member)
Probable Cause: A Philosophical Inquiry
- 1994 TT offer from Central Missouri State; declined for personal reasons
- 1996- University of Central Oklahoma (T)
1992
Ideas as Acts of Perception: A Direct Realist Interpretation of Descartes' Theory of Sense Perception
- 1992-1994 University of Central Arkansas (TT; resigned)
- Accepted into Columbia Law School, Fall 1994, J.D. 1997
- Partner, Duval & Stachenfeld, Los Angeles
