I am an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Durham University.

I work on a variety of issues in metaethics, normative ethics, applied ethics (typically business ethics) and epistemology. My current focus is criticism and alternatives to the Big Three framework in normative ethics, building on work on the nature of consequentialism, specifically what about it “haunts” even nonconsequentialists like myself. I am also working with Joe Gough on a paper about the emotions and one with Tristram McPherson about a distinctive kind of conceptual engineering.

In addition to my research, I am founder of TOMATO² with Peter M. Jaworski and Brian Berkey, the (intended to be) annual Talks On Morality Across The Ocean, which aims to promote interaction between ethicists on both sides of the Atlantic, and also hosts the GISME Prize in Markets and Ethics. I am also co-founder of Open Tower with Graham Leach-Krouse, an organization that develops open source technologies in ser­vice of a more trans­par­ent, in­clu­sive and empowered academy. And I am co-founder of DonationEthics.com, which develops and hosts open letters by ethicists and economists who support ethical donation-compensation practices.

I can be found in nonacademic parts of the online world watching movies, playing Carcassonne and bragging about my dog, Poppy. So far, no one has correctly guessed her breed mix. If you manage it, I’d love to know! (reveal)