I work as tenured faculty in Philosophy at Scottsdale Community College.  For the academic year 2008-2009 I am serving as Chair of Social Sciences.  I earned my B.A. at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, my M.A. at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and my Ph.D. at Arizona State University.  My dissertation, Divine Abandonment and the Evidential Argument from Evil, was based on the work of William Rowe and explored the significance of inscrutable evil and the experience of divine abandonment for the evidential case against theism to determine their relative weight in the debate.

Apart from the philosophy of religion, I have special interests in Vaishnava philosophy during the Bengali Renaissance in India (especially the work of Bhaktivinoda Thakur), in German transcendental idealism (especially that of Arthur Schopenhauer), and in the advantages of liberty-based political systems over equality-based systems.

I love the German language and am currently translating J. M. Bochenski's Marxismus-Leninismus: Wissenschaft oder Glaube (Marxism-Leninism: Science or Faith) into English.  I believe that careful study of Soviet communism and its failings enables us to understand our century in a more meaningful context.

I am also an avid motorcyclist and earned a PHD (Professional Harley-Davidson) Certificate at the Motorcycle Mechanics Institute in 1998.  I still work on motorcycles and ride a Harley-Davidson and a Victory, but I love all makes of motorcycles.