Welcome! I am an Instructor at the Philosophy Departments of St. Louis University and Washington University in St. Louis. From Fall 2007 to Spring 2009 I was a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at SLU. Before this, I was an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department of Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey.

I received my Ph.D. in Philosophy from Syracuse University in December of 2005.

My main research interests are in metaphysics, especially the following subject areas:

1. material constitution
   

2. stuff ontology
   

3. mereology and composition
   

4. analytic process ontology
   

5. The metaphysical implications, if any, of the differences between count- and mass-terms, and progressive vs. perfective verb aspect.
   

My teaching interests (besides metaphysics) are in Ethics, Ancient Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Political Philosophy, and Epistemology.

Look around. I have links for my students, links to philosophical resources, my papers, and so on, which you can find via the navigation links above.