Scholarship

My own research sits in contemporary French philosophy and phenomenology, and in the philosophy of religion that has grown out of it — questions of immanence and the supernatural, the relation between thought and action, and the reception history through which those questions reach us.

Translation

Translation of French philosophy, with the technical apparatus a scholarly translation carries: source collation and citation recovery to the printed page.

• Emmanuel Falque, Nothing to It: Reading Freud as a Philosopher Translated by Robert Vallier and William L. Connelly · Figures of the Unconscious · Leuven University Press, 2020

Upcoming Talks

• The ‘Human’ Under Flux: Culture, Authority, and Meaning in the Age of AI Plenary roundtable · ISSRNC 20th Anniversary Conference, “Foundations and Fluidity” · Venice, Italy · 11 October 2026
• Aligned to What? The Alignment Problem as a Problem in Metaethics 11th Philosophy Students’ Symposium, “AI and Philosophy” · University of Maribor · Maribor, Slovenia · 12–13 November 2026 The metaethics of AI value alignment. Dossier on request.

Articles & Chapters

• Seeding the World with Glory: Divine Mediation and Blondel’s Reception of Leibniz’s Philosophy of Force Crossing: The INPR Journal 4, Perugia Special Issue, 2025
• Falque’s Physicalism and the Spiritualism of the Flesh: Phenomenology and Metaphysics In To Die of Not Writing: Doing Philosophy of Religion with Emmanuel Falque, ed. Pablo Irizar, Donald Boyce, and Martin Koči · Cascade Books, 2025
• At the Confluence of Phenomenology and Non-Phenomenology: Maurice Blondel and Emmanuel Falque In Transforming the Theological Turn: Phenomenology with Emmanuel Falque, ed. Martin Koči and Jason W. Alvis, 75–92 · Rowman & Littlefield International, 2021
• Ritual and Thought: Spirituality and Method in Philosophy of Religion Religions 12, no. 12 (2021): 1045
• The Intelligibility of the Flesh: A Response to Emmanuel Falque Crossing: The INPR Journal 1 (2020): 154–61

Conference Papers

• After Polarity: Unity and Mediation in the Thought of Maurice Blondel European Academy of Religion (EuARe) Annual Conference, panel “Wide and Winding Roads: Renewing the Catholic Intellectual Tradition” · Rome, Italy · July 2026
• Blondel’s Method of Immanence and the Question of Apologetics INPR International Seminar · Val d’Aulnay, France · March 2025
• Seeding the World with Glory: A Positive Anthropology, from Leibniz to Blondel INPR Biennial Seminar · Perugia, Italy · June 2024
• Return to the Human INPR Seminar · Sils Maria, Switzerland · June 2024
• A Spirituality of the Sensible: Blondel’s Harvest of French Spiritualism INPR Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar · Wrightwood, California, USA · January 2024

• Research
• Translation
• Review