In both research and pedagogy, I follow a speculative pragmatist orientation that understands the practice of philosophy as one manner of living responsibly in contexts of social and ecological dysfunction. My research draws primarily on intersections between process philosophies, critical environmental philosophy, and contemporary Continental philosophy, with additional interests in comparative world philosophy and aesthetics.
Awards and Grants
2023 King's Research Excellence Scholar Grant: “Ecological Conversion: From Critique to Creation”
Education
Teaching
Past and Current Courses
Philosophy
1305: Questions of the Day (Fall 2020, Fall 2024, Winter 2024)
2242: Philosophy of the Earth (Fall 2020-ongoing)
2227: Introduction to Indigenous Philosophies (Winter 2021, Fall 2021, Fall 2022)
2241: Comparative Philosophy (Time) (Winter 2026-ongoing)
3244: Planetary Ethics and Social Transformations (Winter 2021 – 2025)
2246: Philosophy of Encounter (Winter 2023 – ongoing)
3343: Special Topics in Ethics
- Ethics of Climate Change (Winter 2021)
- Ethics of Immanence: Spinoza and Deleuze (Winter 2022)
- Advanced Environmental Philosophy (Fall 2023)
- The Beautiful and the Good (Winter 2025)
3997: Special Topics: Radical Empiricisms and Rethinking Human Experience (Fall 2022)
Theocrit
9149B: Ecological Conversion: from Critique to Creation (Winter 2023, Graduate Seminar, Centre for Study of Theory and Criticism, Western University)
9148: Earth Aesthetics for the Information Age (Fall 2024, Graduate Seminar, Centre for Study of Theory and Criticism, Western University)
Research
My current research centres around the relation between affect, aesthetics, and ecological transformation at existential and socio-cultural levels. I am pursuing this research both through contemporary ecological and critical environmental discussions as well as more historically inclined research into two 20th century philosophers whose work remains under-studied in North America: Susanne K. Langer and Gilbert Simondon. Both Langer and Simondon operate from broadly radical empiricist and process orientations in developing highly original interdisciplinary philosophical projects that engage the life sciences and the arts. Both have much to offer present debates around sources of value, meaning, and communication in contexts of deep uncertainty and epochal change.
I have published one monograph study (Affect and Attention after Deleuze and Whitehead: Ecological Attunement (Edinburgh University Press 2020)) and articles in a wide range of scholarly journals.
Selected Publications
Monograph
Affect and Attention after Deleuze and Whitehead: Ecological Attunement. New Perspectives in Ontology series at Edinburgh University Press. December 2020.
Articles
“Affect before World? Or, What’s the Use of Simondon’s Ontological Affect in Planetary Polycrisis” Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, 2026, Volume 30, Issue 1: 21-39: https://doi.org/10.5840/symposium20263013
“Ecological Conversion.” Entry for Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene. Edited by Christoph Wulf and Nathanaël Wallenhorst. 2026, Springer-Nature: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51703-7_27-1.
“Aion/Chronos and Living Time?” in Deleuze and Cosmology, edited by Alain Beaulieu and Janae Sholtz, 2026, Edinburgh University Press: 153-170.
“Relational Time and Creolizing Eschatology.” Time and Society, 2025, online first as part of Special Issue: Temporal Turbulence in the Polycrisis: https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X251333836
“Icon, Index, Symbol: Theorizing Eco-Aesthetic Encounters across Epistemes.” Comparative and Continental Philosophy, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/17570638.2025.2565451
“How Not to Talk about Environmental Personhood: Thinking Transitional Concepts,” Law and Critique, 2023, Volume 34, 287-307. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-022-09339-w
“The ‘Beautiful Soul’ and ‘Religious Consciousness’: Deleuze and Nishida,” Comparative and Continental Philosophy, Spring 2022, Volume 14, Issue 1, 1-14: https://doi.org/10.1080/17570638.2022.2098560
“Thinking in Crisis: Towards an Ethics of Speculation?” Environmental Philosophy, Volume 19, Issue 1, Spring 2022, p. 1-21. Published online first June 3, 2022: https://www.pdcnet.org/envirophil/content/envirophil_2022_0019_0001_0001_0021
“Paradoxes of Pure Experience: From the Radical to the Transcendental with James and Deleuze” Contemporary Pragmatism, Volume 18, Issue 4, 2021. Published online first Nov. 29, 2021: https://brill.com/view/journals/copr/18/4/article-p407_407.xml
“Life in Interregnum: Deleuze, Guattari, and Atleo” in Philosophy in the American West: A Geography of Thought, edited by Josh Hayes, Gerard Kuperus, and Brian Treanor. Routledge Press, 2020: 144-59.
“Climate Change and the Everyday: Becoming Present to Precarity.” Ethics and the Environment, December 2020, Volume 25 (2): 73-97.
“Reckoning with Jean Wahl’s ‘Poetry as Spiritual Exercise’ in Times of Duress: Translation and Commentary.” Philosophy Today, Summer 2020, Volume 64 (3): 793-807.
“Climate X or Climate Jacobin?: A Critical Exchange on our Planetary Future.” Co-Authored with Larry Busk. Radical Philosophy Review, 2020, Volume 23 (2): 175-200. DOI: 10.5840/radphilrev2019103100).
“A Genesis of Speculative Empiricisms: Whitehead and Deleuze read Hume.” Southern Journal of Philosophy, December 2019, Volume 57 (4): 459-482.
“Deleuze, Whitehead, and the ‘Beautiful Soul.’” Deleuze and Guattari Studies, May 2019, Volume 13 (2): 163-85.
“Philosophical Criteria in Whitehead and Rorty.” Metaphilosophy, October 2017, Volume 48 (4): 762-779.
“‘Pure Experience’ and ‘Planes of Immanence’: From James to Deleuze.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Winter 2016, Volume 30 (4): 427-51.
“‘Concepts’ and Continuity: Onto-Epistemology in William James.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Winter 2015, Volume 51 (4): 508-30.