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Biography

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I am the Director of Philosophy at Montclair State. 

I write phenomenology of music and technology. 

My M.A. and Ph.D. are from Columbia University; my B.A. is from the University of Minnesota. 

I teach courses such as Meaning in Life, Philosophy of Technology, Ethics and Technology, Philosophies of the Self, Existentialism, Phenomenology and Music, and Ethical Reasoning. 

Publications 
•&�Բ�����;Currently Writing: "The Phenomenology of Music" for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy;

•&�Բ�����;“Performance, Technology, and the Good Life” (in The Oxford Handbook on the Phenomenology of Music, forthcoming); 

• Distracted from Meaning: A Philosophy of Smartphones (Bloomsbury Academic, October 2022); 

• “Being-with Smartphones” (Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 25, no. 2, 2021);

&�Բ�����;• "On the Divide: Analytic and Continental Philosophy of Music” (Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 75, 2017);

&�Բ�����;• Groove: A Phenomenology of Rhythmic Nuance (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014); 

•&�Բ�����;Key Terms in Philosophy of Art (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013 — translated into Chinese, Arabic, and Persian); 

• "In Praise of Ambiguity: Musical Subtlety and Merleau-Ponty" (Contemporary Aesthetics 11, 2013); 

• “Philosophy of Music” (in The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edn, 2013 — also at Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online); 

• "Continental Philosophy and Music" (in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music, 2011); 

• "Musical Musical Nuance," (Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 68, 2010); 

• "Musical Experience" (in The Oxford Companion to Consciousness, 2009 — also at Oxford Reference Online).

Research

I write about meaningfulness, technology, art and music.