Allen Porter is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Austin, Texas. Previously he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Florida's Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education and a postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University's James Madison Program. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Rice University. His primary research areas are bioethics, continental philosophy, and political philosophy. His work in bioethics has focused on issues of transhumanism, posthumanism, and postmodernity, and his primary philosophical methodology is existential phenomenology.
