I have been a philosophy professor at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida for the past twenty-one years. I primarily think of myself as a teacher, and I am interested in how philosophy can help us make sense of ourselves and the world we live in through disciplined reasoning and wondering thought. I find resources for teaching and thinking about this in Ancient Western Philosophy, East Asian Philosophy, and the thought of the Eighteenth Century Italian thinker, Giambattista Vico. My thoughts on Vico can be found in my book, Vico’s Axioms: The Geometry Of The Human World.I am also fascinated with teaching logic, as we all keep on climbing up Wittgenstein's ladder, hoping one day to be be able to kick it away.