Welcome.
I’m a writer who lives in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. After staring at the currents of academic philosophy, I decided to steer in other ways. I now work in the public sector in policy work, and engage with philosophy and poetry when I can.
I have big ideas for this website. In the interim, consider downloading a PDF of my manuscript, Being & Metaphor: Variations on World. Although I have been unsuccessful in finding a publisher for it, I know it’s an important work.
(Note: I’ve included the date the text was last updated at the bottom of the table of contents page because I will continue to tinker with it.)
Being & Metaphor offers an original, multi-layered approach—geared to a general educated audience and also of interest to scholars—to key questions in philosophy. Being & Metaphor uses a new, innovative book format—which allows for both a linear and a more sectional, layered approach to reading—and guides the reader through a transformative project of reimagining and re-experiencing their self, group, world, and others around them.
Drawing on Heidegger’s concept of “world,” the book makes a case for developing the notion of a multiplicity of worlds: other human, non-human animal, plant, and even thingly worlds. Not only do we live in a world, we live in a world of many worlds: multiple, divergent worlds.
The book draws on Jan Zwicky’s concept of “metaphor” and posits a metaphoric ontology: i.e., a way that overlapping worlds exist together. A metaphoric ontology brings together aspects worlds have in common while nonetheless retaining their irreducible difference. At the heart of Being & Metaphor is the question of how to live a good life and the answer lies in practices of sensitive responsivity to beings around us.