About

• I am a Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and lecturer at the University of Freiburg. Previously, I was an Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellow at Humboldt University of Berlin and Potsdam, visiting Associate to Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago (2018-2021),  Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Lewis University (2018-2020). Fulbright, DAAD, and AvH. PhD awarded August 2018.

• value theory (aesthetics, ethical theory), theoretical philosophy, and modern philosophy (Kant, Hegel, idealism, phenomenology, existentialism, and Neo-Aristotelianism)

• I am interested in problems of foundational skepticism and adequate grounds; aesthetic theory and the role of art in ethics and concept formation;  ethical theory, particularly virtue ethics and theories of kind-derived norms that manage to account for universal rights and unique responsibility relative to the kind in question. On the side, I am interested in such questions as the application of theories of identity and ethics to emergent forms of artificial intelligence.

• Select Publications:
• 2023. "Hegel's End of Art and the Artwork as an Internally Purposive Whole" Journal of the History of Philosophy, 61(3): 473-498 (open access).
• 2023. "Artworks are Valuable for their own Sake"  Journal of the American Philosophical Association: 9(2): 234-252 (open access).
• 2023. “Goethe’s Theory of Art: Rethinking Organic Wholes and Architecture” Bloomsbury History of Modern Aesthetics
• 2022. "Pure Synthesis and the Principle of the Synthetic Unity of Apperception" Kant-Studien 113, no. 1: 8-39
• 2022. “Hegel’s Logic of Negation,” in Negation in Post-Kantian Philosophy, ed. by Moss, Springer: 397-419
• 2021. “The Concept of Life in German Idealism and its Aristotelian Roots” Intellectual History Review 31, no. 3: 379-390. 
• 2019. “The Ground of Hegel’s Logic of Life and the Unity of Reason: The Free Lawfulness of the Imagination” The Imagination in German Idealism and Romanticism. Ed. Gerad Gentry and Konstantin Pollok. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 

– Reviewed by the Hegel Bulletin, Kant-Studien, and the Journal of the History of Philosophy

• My professional service  includes serving as a member of the American Philosophical Association program committee ('20-21), refereeing articles for the Journal of the History of Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Southern Journal of Philosophy, and the University of Cambridge; currently serving as president of the Society for German Idealism and Romanticism (www.thesgir.org) and Springer Book Series Co-Editor (with Allen Speight): Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

• USA Fulbright Fellow, DAAD Gastprofessor, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow.