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I am currently a postdoctoral researcher on the Structure of Normativity research project at Bielefeld University. Before coming to Bielefeld, I was a PhD student at the University of Southern California. My research interests are in epistemology, metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics.
In epistemology, I am interested in virtue epistemology, the Gettier problem, and social and moral epistemology. In metaethics, I work on reasons and the structure of normativity, moral epistemology, and moral worth. In normative and applied ethics, I am interested in the nature of rights, consent, and their application to issues in sexual and reproductive ethics. At my heart, though, I am a generalist: I am interested in all areas of ethics and epistemology.
Publications:
"When Factives Fail to be Factives." Synthese (2025)
Defends the factivity of a variety of philosophically important factive relations against recent challenges.
"A Defense of Ectogenic Abortion." Bioethics (2024)
Defends the right to an abortion in cases where this cannot be justified by bodily autonomy rights because the fetus is not in a womb.
"What the Golden Rule Teaches Us About Ethics." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2024)
Proposes an explanation of a familiar moral epistemological phenomenon: that we are sometimes better able to acquire moral knowledge when thinking about cases involving people who are closer to us.
"An Attempt at a General Solution to the Problem of Deviant Causal Chains." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2024)
Proposes a novel general solution to one of the most difficult problems in philosophy.
"Credit for Dummies." Journal of Philosophy (2024)
Argues against the existence of cognitive conditions on creditworthy performances. This has implications for epistemology, moral worth, and beyond.
Defends the existence of reasons for affective attitudes against a popular recent challenge.
Some Current Research Projects:
Projects with Complete Drafts:
A project where I prose a novel account of virtue that, I argue, enables virtue epistemology to overcome the fake barn problem.
A project aiming to solve a well-known problem facing virtue epistemology.
A project on fittingness first and the wrong kind of reason problem.
A project on consent and sexual ethics.
A project where I argue that the Gettier problem can be solved from compelling premises.
A project arguing that ordinary people and fetuses do not have comparable moral status.
A project on moral responsibility.
Projects with Drafts in an Early Stage:
A project on the intersection of standpoint theory and moral epistemology.
A project on the foundations of standpoint theory.
A project on the balancing view of ought and reasons.
A project on the permissibility of using social media.
Teaching:
Teaching philosophy is incredibly fulfilling for me; it is a large part of why I chose to pursue this profession. I come from a family of educators (my mom and stepdad were both schoolteachers), and I caught the teaching bug from them. My teaching tends to involve significant back-and-forth discussion and skill practice. I believe that the best way for students to become better philosophers is by regularly doing philosophy with direct guidance and feedback from an instructor. I primarily teach in the following four areas: epistemology, normative ethics, applied ethics, and political philosophy.
Current Teaching:
Why Democracy?
Nozick's Libertarianism
Past Teaching:
Social Epistemology
Moral Psychology
The Ethics of AI and Technology
The Ethics of Killing in War and Self-Defense
Bioethics
Rawls and His Critics
Moral Puzzles
Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
Virtue Epistemology
Moral Epistemology
Introduction to Metaethics
Plato on Justice
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