I am a Lecturer in Philosophy at California State University, Long Beach. I received my PhD in Philosophy from the University of California, Irvine, where I was trained in analytic phenomenology, with a strong background in formal logic. These tools help me to examine fundamental questions about how systems of logic emerge from and in turn inform our experience of reality.
Research
Metalanguage and Metaconsciousness: How Formal Logic Proceeds Towards True Being. In Till Grohmann, ed. The Phenomenology of Essences (2025), Routledge [contact for draft]
Modalization and Demodalization: On the Phenomenology of Negation. Forthcoming in European Journal of Philosophy [doi] [Full Text]
Subjective Character as the Origo a Quo of Phenomenal Consciousness. Grazer Philosophische Studien (2021), 98(2): 222-242 [doi] [Accepted Version]
Husserl, Model Theory, and Formal Essences. Husserl Studies (2021), 37 (2): 103-125. [doi] [Accepted Version] [Full Text]
A Modal Analysis of Phenomenal Intentionality: Horizonality and Object-Directed Phenomenal Presence. Synthese (2021) 198: 10903–10922 [doi] [Full Text]
How to Be an Adverbialist About Phenomenal Intentionality. Synthese (2021) 198 (1): 661-686 [doi] [Full Text]
What Is it Like to Think about Oneself? De Se Thought and Phenomenal Intentionality. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (2019), 18 (5): 919-932. [doi] [Full Text]
Epistemic Logic, Monotonicity, and the Halbach-Welch Rapprochement Strategy. Studia Logica (2019), 107 (4): 669-693. [doi] [Accepted Version]
My work develops a unified philosophical framework that integrates phenomenology with logic. Drawing on Husserlian insights and contemporary tools from model theory and intensional semantics, I argue that logical and intentional structures must be grounded in the dynamic, temporally inflected structures of conscious experience. I defend a modal conception of phenomenal intentionality, reinterpret the foundations of formal logic through a phenomenological lens, and explore how negation, self-consciousness, and formal essence emerge from the lived organization of cognition. This approach challenges externalist models in logic and philosophy of mind, offering a phenomenologically rigorous alternative centered on subjectivity and its modal operations.
Teaching
If publication requires specialization, I believe effective teaching requires a more generalist approach. I have taught and continue to teach a wide variety of courses in addition to my mentoring of graduate students:
