Areas of Specialization: American Philosophy; Philosophy of Mathematics

Areas of Competence: Philosophy of Science; Latin American Philosophy; Philosophy of Sport

Education

Ph.D. Philosophy. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 2005.

M.A. Philosophy. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 2002.

M.A. Statistics. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 1996.

B.A. Mathematics. Harding University, Searcy, AR. 1994.

Honors, Grants, and Awards

Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Pragmatism Studies, Department of Philosophy, Pontificial
Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil, 2005

Resident Scholar Fellowship, Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., Summer 2005

Publications

Edited Book
¿La pelota no dobla?: Reflexiones filosóficas entorno al fútbol. Co-edited with Cesar Torres. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Libros del Zorzal, 2006.

Articles
“Assessing the Value of Nature: A Transactional Approach.” Environmental Ethics, 24(1), 57-74, 2002.

Book Chapters
“El buen juego y la mala suerte: Habilidad, reacción y espontaneidad en el fútbol.” ¿La pelota no dobla?: Reflexiones filosóficas entorno al fútbol. Cesar Torres and Daniel Campos, Eds. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Libros del Zorzal. Forthcoming, May 2006.

Currently Under Review
“Peirce on the Role of Poietic Creation in Mathematical Reasoning.”

“Thinking a la intemperie: Octavio Paz on Poetry and Authentic Philosophical Reflection.”

Works in Progress
“The Leibniz Bernoulli Correspondence: On the Logical Warrant of Bernoulli’s ‘Art of Conjecturing’.”

“The Imagination and Hypothesis-Making in Mathematics: A Peircean Account”

Presentations and Lectures

“Peirce on Personal Creation and Discovery.” Paper Session of the Personalist Discussion Group. The American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Annual Meeting. New York. December 2005.

“Peirce on Mathematical Reasoning and Poietic Creation.” Paper Session. 8th International Meeting on Pragmatism. Center for Pragmatism Studies, Pontificial Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil. November 2005.

“The Development of Mathematical Probability Theory: From Jacob Bernoulli (1713) to Pierre Simon Laplace (1812).” Colloquium. National Museum of American History. Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. July 2005.

“Searching for a Mean between Di-versity and Uni-versity: An Account of the Personal Experience of Immigrating.” Panel Discussion. Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Annual Meeting. California State University, Bakersfield, California. March 2005.

“The Leibniz-Bernoulli Correspondence: Bernoulli’s Theorem and Abductive Inference.” Paper Session. Mid-Atlantic Seminar on Early Modern Philosophy. Annual Meeting. Rutgers University, New Jersey. November 2004.