CURRENT MISSION

LA/Orange County! (whenever I can, that is)

ABOUT ME

I like to talk about philosophy, music, movies, David Foster Wallace, cognitive science, and art museums. I also like swimming, drinking, dancing, soccer, yelling, listing things. I guess this helps. No? I'd like to buy dinner for anyone who'd let me stay on their couch. Or, what's a good way to thank my hosts? Do people like trinkets carved out of soap?

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've only been a guest so far. Amazing people put me up on my first cross-country drive in September 2010, during two academic conferences in spring 2011, and during my second Xcountry drive this past June and July. I hope I have the chance to put at least some of them up once I'm settled in MI.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Again, totally awesome people have put me up. Each one has a more specific thanks in the section to the bottom right of a profile where I guess they're called "references" are. Check out those wonderful people!

Interests

Shoot! That's what I did above, when I described myself. Except that I'm funny and maybe kinda' intense, there's not much to me besides my interests and activities, right?

• arts
• dancing
• causes
• cooking
• drinking
• movies
• chess
• music
• soccer
• tennis
• swimming
• mathematics
• physics
• science

Teach, Learn, Share

I have a PhD in philosophy; so I know a lot about that, especially contemporary metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of cognitive science, as well as Stoic metaphysics and epistemology. I was also once really interested in cognitive science, especially computational models of vision, so I could share fun stuff about experiments on how vision works and what causes certain sorts of hallucinations. I used to be proficient in Latin and Attic (like ancient Athenian) Greek...but I'm pretty far out of practice.

I would love to learn how to play any instrument, but I think I'd really like to rock on the turntables. I should learn how to cook someday, and I would be totally stoked to learn more about theoretical physics, artificial intelligence, or high-level math. Maybe I'd also like to know how to play chess or tennis better.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Mexico

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands, United States

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