Outside of philosophy, my primary interest is music. In the interim between finishing college and starting graduate school—a period of a few years—I grew out my hair and played guitar in a “psychedelic surf rock” band in Austin, TX.
I also enjoy movies, reading for fun (which usually means working my way very slowly through the St John’s list of great books), hiking, gardening, and studying Greek morphology and syntax in Smyth’s Grammar.
GREECE
In July of 2019, I had the opportunity to present some of my work at a conference in Vouliagmeni, a small beachside town outside of Athens. Here are some photos from that trip:
Me, standing in the agora of Athens, where Socrates once annoyed Athenians, pestering them with questions about the nature of aretē.
Face to face (to face?) with a bust of Aristotle.
At the rear gate to the citadel of Mycenae. Not the Lion’s gate.
In the theater of Epidaurus.