Matt joined the Virginia Tech M.A. Program in the Fall of 2007. He graduated cum laude from the University of North Carolina Wilmington with a B.A. in Philosophy and Religion and wrote his undergraduate honors thesis on conditional statements as they appear in classical logic, alethic modal logic, and ordinary English. In recent years, Matt has given papers on intentionality and qualia, fatalism and time, Kant's phenomena and noumena, and so-called nonconditional conditionals. The areas of Matt's research and study interests include language, logic, metaphysics, and epistemology. Currently, Matt's research is focused on recent accounts of vagueness, including supervaluation, the epistemic approach, and higher-order vagueness.