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 EDUCATION

Ph. D.         Philosophy, University of California, San Diego
                     Dissertation: Toward A Sensible Sentimentalism

M.A.           Philosophy, University of California, San Diego

B.A.             Philosophy, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona


EMPLOYMENT

2025-           Professor - Santa Clara University

2020-2025 Associate Professor 
– Santa Clara University 

2014-2020 Assistant Professor – Santa Clara University

2013-2014 Renewable Term Lecturer – Santa Clara University

2012-2013 Academic Year Adjunct Lecturer – Santa Clara University

2011-2012 Lecturer – California State Polytechnic University Pomona



PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS


2024                 Exploring extended realities: Metaphysical, psychological, and ethical issues (edited with 
                              Andrew Kissel)


2022                 The Ethics of Virtual and Augmented Reality: Building Worlds (Routledge)

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ARTICLES


Forthcoming       Ethical issues in virtual reality for clinical psychology. (With Thomas Parsons, Andrew Kissel,
                                   Lihong Ou). In
Bouchard, S. (Ed) Virtual Reality and Mental Disorders. CRC Press/Taylor &
                                   Francis Group


Forthcoming       Suicide, social media, and artificial intelligence. (With Susan Kennedy). In Cholbi, M. & Stellino, P.
                                  (eds), Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Suicide


2024                      Extended reality, control, and problems of the self: An ethical analysis (with ShelbyJennett, Dorian
                                   Clay, and Mohit Gandhi). In Ramirez, E. & Kissel, A. (eds). Exploring extended realities:
                                   Metaphysical, psychological, and ethical issues 

2024                      Through a glass virtually: On the future of extended realities (with Andrew Kissel). In Ramirez, E.
                                   & Kissel, A. (eds). Exploring extended realities: Metaphysical, psychological, and ethical issues 

2023                      XR embodiment and the changing nature of sexual harassment. With Shelby Jennett,
                                   Jocelyn Tan,
 Raghav Gupta, and Sydney Campbell. Societies

2021                     What it's like to be a ______: Why it's (often) unethical to use VR as an empathy
                                  nudging tool. With Miles Elliott & Per Milam. Ethics and Information Technology


2021                     Ethical solutions for commercial VR/AR applications. With Jocelyn Tan, Miles Elliott,
                                  Mohit Gandhi, & Lia Petronio.
 
In Navid Shaghaghi, Fabrizio Lamberti, Brian Beams,
                                  Reza Shariatmadari, Ahmed Amer (Eds.)  Intelligent Technologies for Interactive
​                                 Entertainment.
Springer


2020                      Ethical issues with simulating the Bridge problem in VR. Science and Engineering Ethics

2020                      How to (dis)solve the Gamer's Dilemma. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

2019                      Psychopathy, autism, and basic moral emotions: Evidence for sentimentalist
                                  constructivism. In Robyn Bluhm and Şerife Tekin (Eds.) Bloomsbury Companion to
                                  the Philosophy of Psychiatry
. New York; London: Bloomsbury


2018                      Shame, embarrassment, and subjectivity: Holding psychopaths accountable. European
                                  Journal of Analytic Philosophy
. Invited contribution for a special issue on
​                                  psychopathic responsibility
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2018                     Ecological and ethical issues in virtual reality research: A call for increased
                                  scrutiny. Philosophical Psychology 
https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2018.1532073

2018                      Real moral problems in the use of virtual reality. With Scott LaBarge. Ethics and
                                InformationTechnology
 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-018-9473-5


2017                    Empathy and the limits of thought experiments. Metaphilosophy 48 (4): 504-526. 2017 

2017                     A conditional defense of shame and shame punishment. Symposion: Theoretical and
                                 Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences​
, 4 (1), 77-95

2017                     Neurosurgery for psychopaths? The problems of empathy and neurodiversity. American
                                 Journal of Bioethics: Neuroscience 
DOI: 10.1080/21507740.2016.1218387

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2017                     Can Suicide in the Elderly Be Rational? Lawrence J. Nelson and Erick Ramirez in
                               
Robert McCue and Meera Balasubramaniam (Eds.) Rational Suicide in the Elderly:
                               Clinical, Ethical, and Sociocultural Aspects. Springer


2015                    Receptivity, Reactivity, and the Successful Psychopath. Philosophical Explorations 18
                               
(3), 330-343


2014                    Philosophy of Mental Illness. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

2013                   
Psychopathy, Moral Reasons, and Responsibility. In Herrera, C. and Perry, A (eds.)
                               Ethics and Neurodiversity. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Cambridge, UK., pp. 217-
                               237


2013                   Critical Review: The Emotional Construction of Morals. Philosophical Psychology, 16
                               (3), 461-475

References

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