Prior to coming to the Department of Philosophy at Lafayette College in 2003, I taught philosophy at Brown University, Connecticut College, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 1991 I earned my B.A. in literature from Yale University, where I was a member of the Whiffenpoofs of 1991. From 1993 - 1997 I was enrolled in a double-degree program in mathematics and philosophy, with minors in psychology and sociology, at the Freie Universität Berlin, serving as a graduate teaching assistant for Professor Albrecht Wellmer.
My studies in philosophy at Brown University from 1997 - 2003, where I received my A.M. in 1999 and my Ph.D. in 2003, culminated in a doctoral thesis on the epistemology of testimony. I wrote my dissertation, entitled "The Reasons Others Give Us: The Norms of Assertion Account of the Epistemic Status of Testimony," under the direction of Ernest Sosa (advisor), Jaegwon Kim, and James Van Cleve.
I have areas of research interest in epistemology, philosophy of language, the history of modern philosophy, and the history of 20th century analytic philosophy.