After graduating from the University of Notre Dame (Go Irish!) with a degree in Physics, I went to work briefly for the Gas-Service Interaction Division at NASA-Langley as a Langley Aerospace Research Summer Scholar (LARSS). I rather quickly realized, however, that the computer simulations required for researching the effects of reentry were not as interesting as the events in the actual world of things. So, I accepted a commission in the US Air Force, at one point serving as a program manager in charge of the development of a new Mission Management System for U.S. Intelligence Satellites at the National Reconnaissance Office (a jointly run Air Force/CIA organization). I would talk about it, but alas I cannot.
Although I had been up to this point a very practical young man, I somehow got interested in the Stoics, Aristotle, and the life most worth living. I got my M.A. in Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and spent four years teaching philosophy at the Air Force Academy. After a mild disagreement with the Office of Air Force Personnel Management about the importance of philosophy in a life well lived (or at least in my life well lived), I separated from the service and enrolled at the Philosophy Ph.D. Program at Georgetown University (Hoya Saxa!). I was a Charlotte Newcombe Fellow, spending the vast majority of my time on my dissertation, ‘Owing it to Us’. After completing my Ph.D., I accepted a position as a Dahrendorf Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science.After an amazing year in London, I took up my present position at The Department of Leadership, Ethics, and Law at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Some of my research touches on more theoretical issues of meta-ethics, other aspects focus on more practical ethical considerations, including environmental ethics, business ethics, and military ethics. There is also the rather dry “Comparisons of the Maxwell and CLL Gas/Surface Interaction Models Using the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) Method” from a long, long ago NASA Trade Manual. After my time at LSE, I can once again report with a fair degree of confidence that the math in it is correct.
Although I had been up to this point a very practical young man, I somehow got interested in the Stoics, Aristotle, and the life most worth living. I got my M.A. in Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and spent four years teaching philosophy at the Air Force Academy. After a mild disagreement with the Office of Air Force Personnel Management about the importance of philosophy in a life well lived (or at least in my life well lived), I separated from the service and enrolled at the Philosophy Ph.D. Program at Georgetown University (Hoya Saxa!). I was a Charlotte Newcombe Fellow, spending the vast majority of my time on my dissertation, ‘Owing it to Us’. After completing my Ph.D., I accepted a position as a Dahrendorf Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science.After an amazing year in London, I took up my present position at The Department of Leadership, Ethics, and Law at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Some of my research touches on more theoretical issues of meta-ethics, other aspects focus on more practical ethical considerations, including environmental ethics, business ethics, and military ethics. There is also the rather dry “Comparisons of the Maxwell and CLL Gas/Surface Interaction Models Using the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) Method” from a long, long ago NASA Trade Manual. After my time at LSE, I can once again report with a fair degree of confidence that the math in it is correct.
