I’m based on the East Coast, studying philosophy and language (Spanish) at Temple University. My work spans metaphysics, literature, and thought. Originally starting my academic career in data science and programming, I later shifted toward the humanities to pursue deeper questions about mind, meaning, and human experience.

This site (inspired by 1990s early web style) is meant to function as both a curriculum vitae and a personal archive of projects, research, notes, and thoughts gathered in one place. Think of it as an intellectual library: part record, part workspace. Short reflections appear in the Notes section, and you’re welcome to reach out via email about ideas, projects, or conversations.

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LA LÓGICA SALVAJE DEL AMOR (RESEARCH PAPER) is an ongoing semester-long research project on the unstable, contradictory, and deliberately unruly logic of love in Juan Ruiz’s Libro del Buen Amor. It is a study that moves between poetic, teleology, and self-undermining narrative techniques to show how buen amor and loco amor operate as competing epistemologies. Notes and excerpt analyses will be added as it develops.

THE LOGIC OF RECIPROCAL VIOLENCE (CAPSTONE, PHILOSOPHY) will be an upcoming independent study examining how cycles of violence are philosophically justified as pathways to stability. It will be a project that interrogates the assumptions that underwrite aggression-as-order. Beginning in January of 2026, it will culminate in a long-form research paper, with reading lists and early reflections added here as it progresses.

CARTESIAN AND LEIBNIZIAN METAPHYSICS (RESEARCH PAPER) was a short study on the classical distinction between monism and dualism in early modern philosophy. The project examined how Descartes and Leibniz frame the nature of the brain/mind as either fundamentally divided or fundamentally unified. The paper was an introductory exploration; revisions and expanded notes have been added in its development.

LOVE, CONTROL, AND CONFINEMENT (ACADEMIC CONFERENCE) was a conference paper presented at the Humanities Research Conference at Lycoming College in April of 2025. It was a study reading both the 13th C. Occitan novel Romance of Flamenca and Rosalía’s contemporary flamenco album El mal querer (2018) as works/mediations on love as a system of enclosure, surveillance, and captivity. Organized chapter by chapter, the project aligned narrative with theories of justification (Schopenhauer), institutionalization (Sartre), time (Heidegger), and escape.

LA ARQUITECTURA DE LA TRAGEDIA ARISTOTÉLICA (CAPSTONE, SPANISH) was a 2025 paper analyzing Frederico García Lorca’s La casa de Bernarda Alba as a “Greek tragedy without gods,” governed by gender, custom, and repression rather than divine law. It used hamartia, anagnorisis, and catharsis to show how tragic architecture persists in a modern, secular context. More information can be found in the Archive.

SOME RECENT NOTES

* On practice as controlled failure
A short note on why all meaningful intellectual work begins with error and iteration.

* How to think critically
A reflection on the habits of questioning that shape analysis.

* On literacy and education
Thoughts on Niall Ferguson: Without Books We Will Be Barbarians and education as a process of forming the self.

* Rejecting hypercategorization
A brief argument against the cultural impulse to follow trends.

* The non-linear path
A reflection on academic wandering, shifting interests, and intellectual becoming.

For more brief writing, view the Notes page.