Academic Bio
I’m a moral philosopher who loves logic and paradoxes—and who tends to wander into other disciplines.
Since 2025, I’ve been Assistant Professor of Philosophy at UNC Chapel Hill, as well as Core Faculty in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE).
I serve as Director of UNC’s PPE Speaker Series and Associate Editor for the Journal of Moral Philosophy. Next year, I’m joining Daniel Wodak as a Book Review Editor at Ethics.
Books
Ethical Theory: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments (Routledge, 2024), with Sarah Stroud. (Audiobook coming in July 2025.)
What We Owe to Ourselves (Oxford University Press, under contract).
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.
Public Philosophy
The Costs of Colorblindness (2025) – on tradeoffs in American race politics, published on Big iff True. (With some discussion at Marginal Revolution.)
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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