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I am a sessional lecturer in philosophy at the University of British Columbia and on faculty in the mathematics department at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. I do research in formal epistemology (quantitative partial belief representation) with an additional interest in Nietzsche studies and legal positivism. I primarily teach Philosophy and Literature (PHIL 375), pursuing topics such as hermeneutics and Central European writers; and Philosophy of Law (PHIL 338) mostly on legal positivism and Marxist approaches to law.

“The Renunciation Paradox: an Analysis of Vulnerability and Intimacy in Nietzsche’s Anti-Humanism.” Philosophia (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-021-00431-6

“Symmetry and Partial Belief Geometry.” European Journal for Philosophy of Science 11:79 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-021-00398-x

“Subordinating Trust to Text: A Hermeneutic Reversal.” Teoria (Special Issue The Concept of Trust, edited by Adriano Fabris) 39:2 (2019) 133–146.

“Maximum Entropy and Probability Kinematics Constrained by Conditionals.” Entropy (Special Issue Maximum Entropy Applied to Inductive Logic and Reasoning, edited by Jürgen Landes and Jon Williamson) 17:4 (2015) 1690–1700.

“The Principle of Maximum Entropy and a Problem in Probability Kinematics.” Synthese 191:7 (2014) 1409–1431.

“Carnap’s Conventionalism in Geometry.” Grazer Philosophische Studien 88 (2013) 123–138.

“Narrativity and the Symbolic Vacuum.” Philosophy and Theology 23:1 (2011) 167-183.