Welcome!

I'm a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Philosophy at Western Michigan University. My interests largely center around the history and philosophy of science (especially physics and cosmology), 17th and 18th Century natural philosophy, and scientific metaphysics. Specific topics I am interested in are the history of space-time theories, the nature of scientific explanation in physical unobservables (e.g. dark matter/energy, the quantum state, etc.), and Newtonian mechanics. 

In my (limited) free time, you can find me hiking around Michigan, stargazing (see 'Astrophotography' above for some photos I've taken), landscape painting, and reading on a variety of topics outside my academic interests, such as architecture and art history, astrobiology, and aerospace engineering. I also have a small antique telescope collection.