Welcome to my webpage. I am a philosophy instructor, a teaching assistant, a copywriter for Vandusen Design, and a freelance writer. Like many, my professional interests are diverse. They include pop-culture and philosophy, philosophy of education, cognitive bias, Eastern philosophy, philosophy of religion, and the academic study of games.

My most current work is at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) where I am a doctoral candidate in education. Specifically, I'm studying cognitive bias within education. Even more specifically, I'm testing different methods to reduce the confirmation bias. I hope to eventually build these methods into curricula for Introduction to Philosophy classes and Introduction to Logic classes. If you are interested in this research, or if you can't find what you're looking for on this website, feel free to contact me.

Here are some random quotes that have inspired me over the years:

"For such is the nature of men that, howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty or more eloquent or more learned, yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves..." Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Chapter 13.

"I did not even know where I was rushing, down to the earth or up to the sun, to its flame..." Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, Page 80.

"A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more" Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism, Page 18.

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away" Philip K. Dick, The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick, Page 261.