Research

Curriculum Vitae

Research Statement

Publications

What Makes Reasons Moral? Philosophical Studies, forthcoming pending review

Not All Moral Obligations Are Obligations to Individuals, and Not All Obligations to Individuals Are Moral Obligations, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming pending review

Ethics and the Limits of Armchair Sociology, Journal of Philosophy, 2025

The Relation Between Moral Reasons and Moral Requirement, Erkenntnis, 2025

Two Concepts of Directed Obligation, Philosophy & Phenomenological Research, 2024

Promises, Offers, Requests, Agreements, Ergo, 2023

Promises as Proposals in Joint Practical Deliberation, Noûs, 2020

Moral Psychology as Accountability (with Stephen Darwall), Moral Psychology and Human Agency: Philosophical Essays on the Science of Ethics (OUP), 2014

The Addict in Us All (with Richard Holton), Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2014

Work in progress

Scorekeeping in a Joint Action Game (under review)

Depression and the Appreciation of Value (draft under revision)

Self-Love and Enjoying the Good (draft in progress)

Activity Over Achievement (draft in progress)

Public philosophy

Depression and the Good, Blog of the APA, 2023

The Philosophical Case Against Hoping Trump Suffers, Washington Post, 2020

People Are Dying Because We Misunderstand How Those with Addiction Think, Vox.com, 2018

Can I Make the World a Better Place? Edmond J Safra Center for Ethics Blog, 2017

Book reviews

Review of Wrongs and Rights Come Apart by Nicolas Cornell, Ethics, forthcoming

Review of Moral Thinking, Fast and Slow by Hanno Sauer, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2019

Review of Reasoning: A Social Picture by Anthony Simon Laden, Philosophical Review, 2016