Selected Publications
forth. ““Teresa of Ávila, Infused Contemplation, and the Question of Her Influence Over René Descartes,” Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists.

2024. “Descartes on Intellectual Joy and the Intellectual Love of God,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.

2024. “Measuring Things That Measure You: Martial Arts as a Model for Complex Epistemological Practices in Science,” Philosophies.

2023. “Loving the Imageless: Descartes on the Sensuous Love of God,” International Journal of Philosophy and Theology.

2023. “Hello, We’re Philosophy in the Wild,” Public Philosophy Journal (Co-Authored with M. Sidzinska and M. Gadomski).

2021. “Experimentation, Distributed Cognition, and Flow: A Scientific Lens on Mixed Martial Arts,” Co-Authored with B. Gweyer and V. Keyser. The Philosophy of Mixed Martial Arts: Squaring the Octagon, edited by J. Holt and M. Ramsay.

In Progress
A paper on Teresa of Ávila’s philosophy of mind (draft)
A paper on Descartes’s moral decision theory (draft)

*Drafts of papers available on request.

Selected Presentations
upcoming. ““Teresa of Avila’s Faculty Psychology (and what it tells us about the possibility of her influence over Descartes), Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Portland, USA.
2023. “Teresa of Ávila and the Art of Introspection.” Women Philosophers and Scientists on Psychology, Mind and Body Awareness, Croatia Libori Summer School, online. (awarded best presentation)
2022. “Descartes on the Sensuous Love of God.” Dissertation Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, USA (video available).
2022. “Descartes on the Intellectual Love of God.” The Wisdom of Love, Society of Christian Philosophers Mountain-West Conference, USA.
2022. “Descartes and Astell on Sociality and the Love of God.” Focus Group Presentations, Method and History of Philosophy, Extending New Narratives, USA.
2021. “Du Châtelet and the Early Modern Conceptions of Eternity.” Early Career Research Seminar, Extending New Narratives, online.
2020. “Du Châtelet and the Early Modern Conceptions of Eternity.” Philosophy in the Wild Graduate Workshop, USA.
2019. “A Metaphysical Method for Moral Development: Descartes and Elisabeth on Morally Relevant Knowledge.” Sixth Finnish-Hungarian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finland.
2018. “A Metaphysical Method for Moral Development: Descartes and Elisabeth on Morally Relevant Knowledge.” Visiting Presentation for Graduate Seminar (on Descartes), San Francisco State University, USA.
2018. “Cartesian Love.” Northwest Student Philosophy Conference, Western Washington University, USA.
2018. “Elisabeth’s Challenge for Descartes: Does the Cartesian Account of Contentedness and Altruism Necessitate an Innite Science?” Elisabeth of Bohemia: A Workshop, Paderborn University, Germany.