Talks
Peer-Reviewed/Refereed Papers
“Metaphysical Suffering and Ethical Attitude: Schopenhauer and Wittgenstein on the Meaning of Pain” Workshop: Ethics & Aesthetics in Schopenhauer & Wittgenstein, University of Southampton, January 12-13, 2026.
“Tocqueville, Catholicism, and the Solution to Democratic Despotism” Telos conference, “Democracy Today”, March 22, 2024.
“A Plotinian Interpretation of Schopenhauer’s Thing in Itself,” Paper presented at Long Island Philosophical Society, St John’s University, April 1, 2023.
“Schopenhauer, The Mystic, and Saying the Thing in Itself: A Neoplatonic Argument for Reconciliation,” Paper presented at North American Division of the Schopenhauer Society, APA Central Division Meeting (Virtual), February 26, 2021.
“‘We Are Nature:’ The Scientific Application of Schopenhauer’s Theory of Introspection,” Paper presented at International Conference of Philosophy of Nature, “The Insides of Nature:” Catholic University of Portugal, September 12, 2018.
On-Campus Presentations
“A Joyful Introduction to Schopenhauerian Pessimism,” St Thomas More Society: Boston College, March 20, 2023.
“Pius VII and Napoleon: A Portrait of the Relationship between Church and State,” St Thomas More Society: Boston College, March 21, 2022.
“Denying Yourself: Philosophical Reflections about Asceticism and Mortification,” St Thomas More Society: Boston College, March 15, 2021
“Why Catholics Should Study Philosophy?,” St Thomas More Society: Boston College, October 28, 2019.