Academic Bio
I’m an assistant professor at UNC Chapel Hill and Core Faculty in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE). As of 2023, I’m an associate editor at the Journal of Moral Philosophy and Director of UNC’s PPE Speaker Series.
My first book, with Sarah Stroud, is Ethical Theory: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments (Routledge). Next up is What We Owe to Ourselves (OUP), which defends a new kind of ethical theory: impartial like consequentialism, rights-based like deontology.
You can see what I’m reading now on my PhilPeople. (It’s mostly math and politics—two topics I hope to focus more on, once those books are finally out.)
Book Reviews
The End of Race Politics, by Coleman Hughes (draft).
Just Policing, by Jake Monaghan (forthcoming) – Ethics.
The Rules of Rescue, by Theron Pummer (forthcoming) – Mind.
The Right to Do Wrong, by Mark Osiel (2023) – Criminal Law and Philosophy.
Duty to Self, by Paul Schofield (2023) – Ethics.
Reference Works
Supererogation and the Limits of Reasons (2023) – in D. Heyd (ed.), Handbook of Supererogation, with Nathaniel Baron-Schmitt.
Obligations to Oneself (2022) – entry in the SEP.
Public Philosophy
What We Owe to Ourselves and Avatars (2021) – interview for With a Terrible Fate podcast (on ethics and video games).
COVID-19, Masks and Moral Mathematics (2020) – ABC Religion and Ethics. (One of the ABC’s ‘Best of 2020’.)
Is There a Moral Imperative to Wear a Mask? (2020) – interview on The Minefield with Waleed Ali and Scott Stephens, aired on ABC Radio National.
Not Knowing Everything That Matters (2014) – The Philosopher's Magazine, with Jonathan Dancy.
Papers
Each Counts for One (forthcoming) – Philosophical Studies.
Wronging Oneself (forthcoming) – JPhil, with Nathaniel Baron-Schmitt.
Dimensions of Value (early online) – Noûs, with Brian Hedden.
Sources of Transitivity (2023) – E&P. (Corrigendum.)
The Many, the Few, and the Nature of Value (2022) – Ergo.
Supererogation and Conditional Obligation (2022) – Philosophical Studies, with Theron Pummer.
Exploitation and Effective Altruism (2021) – PPE.
Three Paradoxes of Supererogation (2021) – Noûs.
Knowledge of Objective ‘Oughts’: Monotonicity and the New Miners Puzzle (2021) – PPR, with Jack Spencer.
From Rights to Prerogatives (2021) – PPR.
Infinite Options, Intransitive Value, and Supererogation (2021) – Philosophical Studies.
The Rejection of Consequentializing (2021) – JPhil.
The Paradox of Duties to Oneself (2020) – AJP.
Grounding Nonexistence (2020) – Inquiry.
Defeaters and Disqualifiers (2019) – Mind.
Thinking, Acting, Considering (2018) – AJP.
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