A Theory of Doxastic Courage
A virtue-theoretic account of courage in belief, developed from honors research at the University of Florida and published in Synthese.
Read at SpringerSynthese 207, 225Peer reviewed
Philosophy & bioethics
Philosophy alongside medicine.
My work in philosophy has ranged from epistemology and intellectual virtue to law and transhumanism. Medical school now provides the context for further work in bioethics.
- 01Background
- 02Published work
- 03Archives
Background
A foundation in philosophy.
I studied philosophy alongside biology at the University of Florida. My honors research in epistemology became a peer-reviewed article in Synthese, while other published work examined culpability in criminal law and philosophical questions raised by transhumanism.
That training taught me to formulate a precise question, distinguish an argument from its rhetoric, and follow a claim through its practical consequences. It also gave me experience working across philosophical, legal, and historical sources.
Bioethics is a developing part of this work during medical school. I am approaching it from an existing foundation in philosophy rather than presenting a settled research agenda or a completed specialization.
Published work
Philosophy and law.
Work in epistemology, philosophy of law, and questions at the boundary of philosophical anthropology and bioethics.
Towards a Thomistic Doctrinal Framework
An argument about medieval personhood and contemporary transhumanist challenges.
Read in the journalFlorida Undergraduate Law Review3:129–143
Knowing and Culpability in Criminal Law
An examination of knowledge, responsibility, and criminal culpability.
Read in the journalFlorida Undergraduate Law Review1:109–117
Archival humanities
Research at the Hoover Archives.
At the invitation of the University of Florida’s Hamilton School, I conducted primary-source research at Stanford University’s Hoover Archives in January 2026.