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Academic Writing and Class Handouts
- Philosophy in Four Questions, high school intro to philosophy textbook (7 Sisters, LLC)
- “How Philosophers Appeal to Priority to Effect Revolution” (draft of paper published in 2016 in Metaphilosophy)
- “How a Flaw in Augustine’s Proof of God’s Existence Forced Descartes to Write the Meditations” (a paper presented the Society of Christian Philosophers conference at Messiah College, in 2015).
- “Husserl’s Mereological Semiotics: Indications, Expressions, Surrogates” (draft of paper published in The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy)
- “Husserl’s Genetic Phenomenology of Arithmetic,” American Dialectic 2, no. 2 (2012): 141-90.
- “The Embarrassment of Punching Puppets” (presented a conference on Free Will at the Center for Cognition and Neuroethics in 2014)
- “A Preparation for Existentialism, Regarding Human Freedom” (original version written for my students in a course on Existentialism at University of Maryland, College Park)
- “What Are Morals?” (written for my students in Contemporary Moral Issues at University of Maryland, College Park)
- How to Survive a Philosophy Course Without Going Insane (written for my students in “The Classical Mind” at The Catholic University of America)
- Outline of Augustine’s Proof of God’s Existence from On Free Choice of the Will (written for my students in “The Classical Mind” at The Catholic University of America)
- Summary of Descartes’ Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy (written for my students in “The Modern Mind” at The Catholic University of America)
- Summary Dialogue of Immanuel Kant’s Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, First Section (written for my students in “The Moden Mind” at The Catholic University of America)
- Summary Dialogue of Immanuel Kant’s Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, for exam review (written for my students in “The Moden Mind” at The Catholic University of America)
- Summary Dialogue of Friedrich Nietzsche’s On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life (written for my students in “The Moden Mind” at The Catholic University of America)
Theological and Philosophical Essays on Other Sites
- “Are We Hypocrites or Antiheroes?” Conciliar Post
- “Could Liberals and Conservatives Follow the Same Christ?” Conciliar Post
- “Do Liberals and Conservatives Follow the Same Christ?” Conciliar Post
- “The Missing Cardinal Virtue (and Deadly Sin)” Conciliar Post
- “Can You See a Soul?” Conciliar Post
- “Is Christian Existentialism Unbiblical?” Conciliar Post
- “The Value and Danger of Loving Your Enemies,” Conciliar Post
- “The Body Politic and the Body of Christ,” Concliliar Post
- “The Resurrection and Nietzsche’s Wager,” Conciliar Post
- “Why Adam and Eve Had to Die,” Conciliar Post
- “Why the Fall Makes No Sense,” Conciliar Post
- “Why Does God Tempt (then Abandon) Adam & Eve?,” Conciliar Post
- “How Actors and Selfies Demystify the Incarnation,” Conciliar Post
- “Why the Problem of Evil Is Incoherent,” Conciliar Post
- “Grunge and Philosophy,” Blackwell’s andphilosophy.com
Speeches and Sermons
If you want to know what I sound like when public speaking, listen to me talk about music and philosophy on the Top 40 Philosophy podcast. If you want to read some of the texts I’ve presented in lecture or sermon settings, you can read the following.
- “The Challenges of Psalm 139,” guest sermon for University Mennonite Church, July 17, 2020 (Video here)
- Commencement Address, Mount Sophia Academy, June 07, 2014
- “A Social Ontology of Vengeance,” guest sermon at Hyattsville Mennonite Church, September 23, 2012
- “Family Stories,” guest sermon at Hyattsville Mennonite Church, July 3, 2011.