With a Ph.D. in philosophy of religion from Boston University, his current “obsession” concerns the use of language to undermine language by a late-ancient Christian Neoplatonist referred to as Pseudo-Dionysius, and therefore involves research into the fields of late-ancient philosophy (Athenian Neoplatonism), philosophy of language, and mysticism. But additional and relevant abiding interests include the fields of philosophy of science (especially the methodology of scientific research programs) and science and religion (especially the similarities and differences between their respective methods of inquiry).