I received my PhD in philosophy from the University of California, Riverside (2013). My areas of philosophical specialization or interest are the metaphysics of free will and its relationship to moral responsibility, the metaphysics of death, the philosophy of addiction (my dissertation topic), and ethics. I am an avid football and baseball fan. I grew up in Tuscaloosa, AL (my BA is from the University of Alabama, where I also majored in history), so I am a lifelong (living memory) fan of the Crimson Tide. In my younger years I got to repel down walls (a few times), bungee jump, and I once stood on a glacier in Alaska. I’ve seen the glove Willie Mays made “The Catch” with in Cooperstown, NY (not interesting to non-baseball fans, sorry), spent a summer studying in England, and a Christmas in Bordeaux, France. My avocation is reading non-fiction books about 19th and 20th century political and military history.