I work in moral and political philosophy and moral psychology, often at the intersections of these fields. I’m primarily interested in humans as valuing beings, whose value commitments affect nearly everything they think about, do, and perceive. These values sometimes conflict at different levels – personal, societal, political. My work seeks to understand this value-imbued perspective and how we might better tailor our normative thinking to promote human flourishing in a world of value pluralism.
Books
The Fruitfulness of Normative Concepts, forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
Advances in Experimental Political Philosophy. (2023). M. Lindauer (ed.), London: Bloomsbury Press.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Feasibility and Normative Penetration.” (2024). Journal of Moral Philosophy, Vol. 21, No. 5-6. (with Nicholas Southwood)
“Righting Domestic Wrongs with Refugee Policy.” (2024). Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Vol. 27, No. 2.
“Why are Muslim Bans Wrong? Diagnosing Discriminatory Immigration Policies with Brock’s Human Rights Framework.” (2022). Res Publica, Vol. 28, No. 3.
“Testing the Motivational Strength of Positive and Negative Duty Arguments Regarding Global Poverty.” (2022). Review of Philosophy and Psychology, Vol. 13, No. 3. (with Luke Buckland, David Rodríguez-Arias, and Carissa Véliz)
“Entry by Birth Alone?: Rawlsian Egalitarianism and the Basic Right to Invite.” (2021). Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 47, No. 2.
“How to Cancel the Knobe Effect: The Role of Sufficiently Strong Moral Censure.” (2021). American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 2. (with Nicholas Southwood)
“Conceptual Engineering and Concept Preservation.” (2020). Ratio, Vol. 33, No. 3.
“Experimental Philosophy and the Fruitfulness of Normative Concepts.” (2020). Philosophical Studies, Vol. 177, No. 8.
“Comparing the Effect of Rational and Emotional Appeals on Donation Behavior.” (2020). Judgment and Decision Making, Vol. 15, No. 3. (with Marcus Mayorga, Joshua Greene, Paul Slovic, Daniel Västfjäll, and Peter Singer)
“The Varieties of Impartiality, or, Would an Egalitarian Endorse the Veil?” (2020). Philosophical Studies, Vol. 177, No. 2. (with Justin Bruner)
“In Defense of a Category-Based System for Unification Admissions.” (2018). Journal of Moral Philosophy, Vol. 15, No. 5.
“Immigration Policy and Identification Across Borders.” (2017). Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Vol. 12, No. 3.
“Moral Judgment and the Duties of Innocent Beneficiaries of Injustice.” (2017). Review of Philosophy and Psychology, Vol. 8, No. 3. (with Christian Barry)
“Doing, Allowing, and Enabling Harm: An Empirical Investigation.” (2014). In Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy, Vol. 1, T. Lombrozo, J. Knobe, and S. Nichols (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press. (with Christian Barry and Gerhard Øverland)
Invited Articles
“Kantian Themes in Ethics and International Relations.” (2018). In The Routledge Handbook of Ethics and International Relations, B. Steele and E. Heinze (eds.), New York: Routledge Press.
“Unification Admissions and Skilled Worker Migration.” (2017). In Fair Work: Ethics, Social Policy, and Globalization, K.P. Schaff (ed.), Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
“The Focus on Health Capability and Role of States in Ruger’s Global Health Justice Framework.” (2012). The American Journal of Bioethics, Vol. 12, No. 12.
Book Review
Review of David Miller’s Strangers in Our Midst: The Political Philosophy of Immigration. (2017). Ethics, Vol. 128, No. 1.
Public Philosophical Writing
“The ‘Daddy Dividend’: The Gender Division of Labor and Regression Towards Patriarchy.” (2020). American Philosophical Association Newsletter: Feminism and Philosophy, Issue on Parenting and Philosophy, Vol. 19, No. 2. (with Serene Khader)
Interview on music and philosophy, Aesthetics for Birds blog, 2019