He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Toronto and taught at the University of Toronto at Mississauga and the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee before moving to Wright State. He has published work on 19th and 20th century European thinkers, such as Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Beauvoir, and Adorno on topics in aesthetics, ethics, and political philosophy. He is currently completing a book on the political implications of Nietzsche’s moral philosophy in which he argues that Nietzsche’s critique of morality’s presupposition of freedom of the will necessitates establishing radically new foundations for key political concepts such as freedom, justice, equality, and democracy.