I am an Associate Professor at Nipissing University in North Bay, with a cross-appointment in Philosophy and Political Science.  My doctorate and most of my teaching, however, are in Philosophy.  I completed my dissertation in 2008 at Fordham University in New York and subsequently taught at the University of Winnipeg.  I have been at Nipissing University since 2010.

My research concerns three clusters of issues:

(1) Materialist social theory, especially Marx, the early Frankfurt School, and Habermas, as well as some associated thematic issues, like labour rights and social protest.

(2) Contractualist ethics and metaethics, in particular, the articulation and defence of a form of contractualism centred on the pursuit of actual agreement in the specific, non-ideal conditions of our existing world.  This includes some work on moral progress and regress, as well.

(3) Social Epistemology, especially issues of testimony and disagreement as they arise in connection with (2), i.e., as relevant aspects of the attempt to form actual agreements concerning what is right or wrong.