I have an MA in Philosophy at the University of Hawai'i, and I will complete my PhD in Philosophy from the University of New Mexico in the spring of 2013. My areas of specialization are the philosophical traditions of classical India (including Indian Buddhist philosophy) and skepticism (ancient and modern, Western and Indian).  You can see some of my publications and presentations below.  My secondary interests include contemporary epistemology, early modern European philosophy, Hellenistic philosophy, ethics, philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, and feminist philosophy.

Selected Publications:

1. “Jayarāśi’s Delightful Destruction of Epistemology.”  Philosophy East and West.  Forthcoming 65:4 (October 2015). 
2. "Engaged Buddhist Metaphysics: Buddhadāsa on Dependent Origination."  Indian Ethics: Classical Traditions and Contemporary Challenges: Volume II.  Eds. Purushottama Bilimoria and Joseph Prabhu.  Springer, Forthcoming 2013.
3. "Cultivation of Moral Concern in Theravāda Buddhism: Toward a Theory of the Relation Between Tranquility and Insight."  Journal of Buddhist Ethics.  Volume 11 (2004).
4. "Book Review of Pyrrhonism: How the Ancient Greeks Reinvented Buddhism by Adrian Kuzminski."  Ancient Philosophy.  Vol. 31, Number 1 (Spring 2011).
5. "Book Review of Buddhism, Knowledge and Liberation: A Philosophical Study by David Burton."  Philosophy East and West.  Vol. 57, Number 4 (October 2007).

 Selected Presentations:

1. “Vasubandhuan Phenomenalism as a Buddhist Ethical Practice,” American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Group Program. New Orleans, LA.  February 2013.
2. "Rejecting Epistemology: Nāgārjuna's Pañcakoṭi and Agrippa's Trilemma,"  Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy Annual Conference, Carbondale, IL.  October 2012.
3. "The Ethics of Skepticism: What We Can Learn from Nāgārjuna, Sextus and Jayarāśi."  Tenth East-West Philosophers' Conference.  Honolulu, HI.  May 2011.
4. "Is Skepticism Inevitable?"  American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Main Program.  Minneapolis, MN.  April 2011.
5. "Jayarāśi's Skepticism: How to Stop Worrying and Love a Life without Philosophy."  American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, Group Program. Boston, MA.  December 2010.