Academic Bio
I’m an assistant professor at UNC Chapel Hill and Core Faculty in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE).
I also serve as Director of UNC’s PPE Speaker Series, Associate Editor for the Journal of Moral Philosophy, and President of the American Association of Mexican Philosophers.
You can see what I’m reading now on PhilPeople.
Books
Ethical Theory: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments (2024, Routledge) – with Sarah Stroud.
What We Owe to Ourselves (under contract, Oxford University Press).
Book Reviews
The Rules of Rescue, by Theron Pummer (2025) – Mind.
Just Policing, by Jake Monaghan (2024) – Ethics.
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.
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, ABC Radio National.
Not Knowing Everything That Matters (2014) – The Philosopher's Magazine, with Jonathan Dancy.
Journal Articles
Each Counts for One (2024) – Phil. Studies.
Wronging Oneself (2024) – JPhil, with Nathaniel Baron-Schmitt.
Dimensions of Value (2024) – 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) – Phil. 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) – Phil. 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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