I received my Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California, Santa Barbara. I also did graduate work at UCSB in Religious Studies. I have taught here at CSUS since 1994. I have also taught at Moorpark College, CA, Cal Poly/San Luis Obispo, and Cosumnes River College.

My main research interests are in the Philosophy of Religion (Miracles, Divine Agency), Theory of Action, History of Western Philosophy, Asian Philosophy, and Environmental Ethics.

I have published a book entitled The Philosophy of Miracles (Continuum 2007). My main concern in this book is to apply contemporary discussion in the theory of action to the problem of miracles, and construct a conception of the miraculous which is consistent with the assumptions of naturalism and which provides an alternative to the usual notion of a miracle as a violation of natural law.

Here is a link to my article on miracles in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. I have additional publications on the subject of miracles, as well as Chinese Philosophy.

I currently have multiple projects open- more than I should: An article for The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy on the Cosmological Argument for the existence of God, and a paper entitled "Living In The Garden," which attempts to construct a theistic virtue-theoretic defense of deep ecology. (Glosses of the two segments of this paper have been published in our department's blog, The Dance of Reason. I am also planning a paper tentatively titled “Three Ways for God to Act,” in which I will argue against recent attempts by Alvin Plantinga and others to locate divine agency at the quantum level.