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Research Fellow, Center for Philosophy and the Natural Sciences 2008
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Harper College 2008 – 2009
Assistant Professor (one-year appointment), Muskingum College 2007 – 2008
Assistant Professor (one-year appointment), Merrimack College 2006 – 2007
Instructor, Ellis University (online college) 2005 – present
Graduate Assistant, SIU Carbondale 2000 – 2005

Whitehead and the Measurement Problem of Cosmology, Ontos-Verlag,
Frankfurt / Lancaster / New Brunswick, Process Thought V, May 2006.

"Cosmology," Handbook of Mereology, Edited by Hans Burkhardt, Johanna Seibt and Guido Imaguire, Philosophia Verlag & Medienbüro, München, 2009 [forthcoming].

“The Roycean Roots of the Beloved Community,” The Pluralist, Volume 4, Number2, Summer 2009.

"Thunder Road," Bruce Springsteen and Philosophy, Edited by Randall E. Auxier and Doug Anderson, Popular Culture and Philosophy series, Open Court Publishing Company, Chicago, 2008.

"A Whiteheadian Perspective on Nature and Freedom," Applied Process Thought I,Initial Explorations in Theory and Research. Thomas Kelly and Mark Dibben (eds.), Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt / Lancaster, Process Thought XVI, February 2008.

"Theory of Groups and Social Measurement," The Reasoner, volume 2, number 2, February 2008. Editor: Jon Williamson, University of Kent, Kent, United Kingdom.

"Alfred North Whitehead," The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. James Fieser, Ph.D., founder and general editor; Bradley Dowden, Ph.D., general editor; David Boursema, American Philosophy editor.

"Albert Einstein," Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, 4 vols., John Shook, General Editor, Thoemmes Continuum, Bristol, United Kingdom, May 2005.

"Davidson on the Impossibility of Psychophysical Laws," Synthese, Volume 145, Number 1, May 2005, pp. 45 – 63.

Recent Conference Presentations:

“Whitehead's Theory of Extension: Spatial Reasoning as the Bridge between Logic and Metaphysics,” APA Central Division, March 30-April 2, 2011, Minneapolis, MN.

“Mathematics and the Philosopher,” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, March 10 – 12, 2011, Spokane, WA.

Older Conference Presentations:

"Irreducible Extension in the Unity of Whitehead's Thought" APA Central Division, April 17 – 20 2008. Session GIV-9, the Society for the Study of Process Philosophies.

"The Logical Problem with Cosmological Measurements," Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, March 8 – 10, 2007. University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.

"Measurement, Mereotopology, and the Nature of Nature," Physics section, International Whitehead Conference, July 3 – 6, 2006. University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.

"The Whiteheadian Perspective on some Formal Theories of Space," Mathematics section, International Whitehead Conference, July 3 – 6, 2006. University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.

"A Whiteheadian Perspective on Nature and Freedom," Chapter for Applied Process Thought, International Conference on Science and Process Thought, May 10 – 13, 2005. National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland.

"The Roycean Roots of the Beloved Community," APA Central Division, April 27 – 30, 2005. A joint session of The Society for the Study of Process Philosophy, The Society for the Philosophy of Creativity, and The Personalist Discussion Group.

"Mental Events and Relational Structures: A Formalization of the Argument for Anomalous Monism and its Consequences," Philosophical Collaborations, April 1 – 2, 2004. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, with Randall Auxier.

"Non-Sentential Conjunction," Mid-south Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, February 20 – 21, 2003.

Memberships:

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, since 1998.

Association for Symbolic Logic, since 2003.

American Philosophical Association, since 2003.

Philosophy of Science Association, since 2004.

Society for Philosophy and Technology, since 2007.

Society for the Study of Process Philosophy, since 2008.

American Philosophical Practitioners Association, since 2008.

Center for Philosophy and the Natural Sciences, since 2008.