ABOUT ME
I am the son of working-class Filipino immigrants and a first-generation college student. Coming from San Diego, CA, my college education started in a small community college, where I discovered my love for philosophy. I transferred to University of California, San Diego and earned a BA in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. I worked in various coffeeshops and completed a year-long Americorps service with READ/San Diego before entering the MA program in Philosophy at San Francisco State University. I studied with amazing philosopher-mentors, like Anita Silvers and Shelley Wilcox, and graduated with distinction. Soon after, I entered the PhD program in Philosophy at the University of Washington, where I am presently a PhD Candidate, a member of the Neuroethics research thrust at the Center for Neurotechnology, and affiliate member of the UW Disability Studies Program.
I aim to do philosophical work that brings out philosophy's liberating and transformative potential. I find philosophy to be most provocative and impactful when it connects the abstract to the intensely personal. It can enable us to furnish new concepts or refine existing ones to discern and critique problematic conceptual underpinnings to social practices that shape people's lives and identities, and in doing so, help usher in more promising conceptions of a just world. Philosophy can also empower us to think critically and independently, demanding us to abide by the lights of reason and not to conform uncritically to conventions and authority in our search for what is true and good. This understanding of philosophy and its benefits organizes and animates my research, teaching, and public philosophy work.
Visit my RESEARCH page for more information on my current and upcoming research projects, publications, works-in-progress, and a list of my past talks.
Visit my TEACHING page for more information on my teaching statement, courses I teach, and my course syllabi.
Visit my PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY page for more information on my past and present public philosophy projects.
For my complete CV, click here.
I aim to do philosophical work that brings out philosophy's liberating and transformative potential. I find philosophy to be most provocative and impactful when it connects the abstract to the intensely personal. It can enable us to furnish new concepts or refine existing ones to discern and critique problematic conceptual underpinnings to social practices that shape people's lives and identities, and in doing so, help usher in more promising conceptions of a just world. Philosophy can also empower us to think critically and independently, demanding us to abide by the lights of reason and not to conform uncritically to conventions and authority in our search for what is true and good. This understanding of philosophy and its benefits organizes and animates my research, teaching, and public philosophy work.
Visit my RESEARCH page for more information on my current and upcoming research projects, publications, works-in-progress, and a list of my past talks.
Visit my TEACHING page for more information on my teaching statement, courses I teach, and my course syllabi.
Visit my PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY page for more information on my past and present public philosophy projects.
For my complete CV, click here.