Education
Ph.D. University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | Department of Philosophy | August 2019
M.A. Stanford University | Stanford, CA | Department of Philosophy | January 2010
B.A. University of New Hampshire | Durham, NH | Philosophy & History | May 2006
Teaching and Research Interests
Areas of Specialization
Ancient Skepticism (esp. Pyrrhonism), History of Skepticism (ancient and modern, theoretical and practical), Epistemology, Metaphilosophy
Areas of Competence
Ancient Greek Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Kant, 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy (esp. Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger), Wittgenstein
Professional Publications
Articles
2026 “Porchat and the Necessity of Skepticism,” forthcoming in Towards Skepticism: Neo-Pyrrhonism and Its Critics, Plinio J. Smith (ed.). Dordrecht: Springer.
2026 “Sképsis,” forthcoming in Encyclopedia of Scepticism and Jewish Tradition, Giuseppe Veltri (ed.). Leiden: Brill.
2025 “Heidegger and Ancient Skepticism: A Prolegomenon,” forthcoming in Ancient Skepticism In Contemporary Philosophy, Begoña Ramón Cámara (ed.). Leiden: Brill.
2023 “The Logical Structure of Michael Williams’s Response to Skepticism,” Metaphilosophy 54: 87–105.
2022 “Dialectical Pyrrhonism: Montaigne, Sextus Empiricus, and the Self-Overcoming of Philosophy,” Sképsis 24: 24–46.
2021 “Making Sense of Thompson Clarke’s ‘The Legacy of Skepticism,’” Sképsis 23: 70–102.
2021 “The Legacy of Thompson Clarke,” Sképsis 23: 148–67.
2020 “The Elusive Third Way: The Pyrrhonian Illumination in Wittgenstein’s On Certainty,” Elenchos 41: 329–62.
2020 “Sextus Empiricus on Isostheneia and Epochê: A Developmental Model,” Sképsis 21: 188–209.
2014 “How (Not) To Read Sextus Empiricus,” Ancient Philosophy 34: 121–49.
Book Reviews
2025 “Lorenzo Corti, Sextus Empiricus: Against the Arithmeticians,” forthcoming in Ancient Philosophy 45.
2021 “Stefan Sienkiewicz, Five Modes of Scepticism: Sextus Empiricus and the Agrippan Modes,” in Ancient Philosophy 41: 237–40.
2020 “Richard Bett, How To Be A Pyrrhonist: The Practice and Significance of Pyrrhonian Skepticism,” in Ancient Philosophy 40: 520–24. (This is an expanded version of the review immediately below.)
2020 “Richard Bett, How To Be A Pyrrhonist: The Practice and Significance of Pyrrhonian Skepticism,” in Classical Review 70: 67–9.
2016 “José R. Maia Neto, Skepticism in Seventeenth-Century French Philosophy: The Charronian Legacy 1601–1662,” in The British Journal for the History of Philosophy 24: 174–78.
2015 “Sébastien Charles and Plínio J. Smith (eds.), Scepticism in the Eighteenth Century: Enlightenment, Lumiéres, Auflärung,” in The British Journal for the History of Philosophy 23: 383–88.
2014 “Michelle Zerba, Doubt and Skepticism In Antiquity and the Renaissance,” in The British Journal for the History of Philosophy 22: 387–89.
2014 “Ioannis Trisokkas, Pyrrhonian Scepticism and Hegel’s Theory of Judgement,” in The International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 4: 68–74.
2012 “Jessica N. Berry, Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition,” in The International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 2: 79–82.
Teaching Experience
Instructor (Official Courses)
2017 The Skeptical Tradition In Philosophy (University of Chicago)
2015 Nietzsche on Skepticism, Nihilism, and the Affirmation of Life (University of Chicago)
Instructor (Non-Credit Independent Studies)
2017 Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment (University of Chicago)
2016 Kierkegaard and Skepticism (University of Chicago)
2015 Fogelin’s Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification (University of Chicago)
2014–15 Heidegger’s Being and Time (University of Chicago)
2014 The Origins of Philosophy (University of Chicago)
2014 Skepticism and Phenomenology (University of Chicago)
2013 Socrates, Plato, and Pyrrhonism (University of Chicago)
2013 (with Aaron Segal) Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (University of Chicago)
Mentor / Adviser
2018–9 B.A. Preceptor (University of Chicago)
2015–6 B.A. Preceptor (University of Chicago)
• Ran a year-long workshop for fourth-year undergraduate philosophy honors students designed to help them develop, write, and complete their senior theses
Teaching Assistant
2016 Introduction to Phenomenology (University of Chicago)
2016 Wonder, Magic, and Skepticism (University of Chicago)
2015 Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations (University of Chicago)
2014 Introduction to Phenomenology (University of Chicago)
2013 Intensive History of Philosophy: Plato (University of Chicago)
2013 Wonder, Magic, and Skepticism (University of Chicago)
2010 Existentialism (Stanford University)
2009 Introduction to Philosophy (Stanford University)
Selected Presentations
Invited or Refereed Presentations
2020 “Thompson Clarke and the Knowability Requirement”
Department of Philosophy, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
2015 “The Structure of Agrippan Skepticism”
Northern New England Philosophical Association Conference, Bates College
2014 “Frontiers of the Mind: Is the Mind ‘Nothing But’ the Brain?” (group presentation/discussion)
The Civic Knowledge Project, Graham School, University of Chicago
2013 “Wittgenstein on Skepticism, Dogmatism, and Seeing the World Aright"
University of New Hampshire, Department of Philosophy
2013 “Pyrrhonism, Agnosticism, and Faith: A Plea for Epistemic Fideism”
Northern New England Philosophical Association Conference, Dartmouth College
2012 “Sextus Empiricus On the Pyrrhonian Third Way”
University of New Hampshire, Department of Philosophy
Institutional Presentations
2015 “A Heideggerian Pyrrhonism?"
The Contemporary European Philosophy Workshop, University of Chicago
2013 “How to Write An Effective Philosophy Paper”
University of Chicago, Department of Philosophy
2013 “The Entwinement of Skepticism and Philosophy”
The Wittgenstein Workshop at the University of Chicago
2013 “Righting the Inverted World: Skepticism and the Appearance–Reality Distinction In Montaigne”
The Early Modern Philosophy Workshop at the University of Chicago
2012 “The Elusive Third Way: The Pyrrhonian Illumination In Wittgenstein’s On Certainty”
The Wittgenstein Workshop at the University of Chicago
2009 “How to Write An Effective Philosophy Paper”
Stanford University, Department of Philosophy
2008 “The Pyrrhonian Circular Dialectic”
The Graduate Student Workshop, Stanford University, Department of Philosophy
2005 “Tolstoy’s Critique of History and Freewill”
The Socratic Society, University of New Hampshire, Department of Philosophy
Service
Referee: Springer, Elenchos, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis, Topoi, Loire Valley Institute for Advanced Studies