Academic Posts
2022- Associate Professor of Philosophy, Durham University
2018-2022 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Durham University
2017-2018 Lecturer, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
2017-2018 Visiting Scholar, UNC Chapel Hill
2015-2017 Faculty Fellow, Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics
2014-2015 Research Assistant Professor, PPE and Parr Center Fellow, UNC Chapel Hill
2013-2014 Visiting Lecturer and Parr Center Fellow, UNC Chapel Hill
2012-2013 Visiting Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech
Education
2012 Ph.D., Philosophy, Bowling Green State University
2007 M.A., Philosophy, Bowling Green State University
2004 B.A. High Honors, Philosophy, Rutgers College, Rutgers University
Publications
Articles
2025 “Better but Wrong: Assessing Conflicts Between the Deontic and the Evaluative,” Philosophia (online first).
2021 “On Leaving Space for Altruism,” with Peter M. Jaworski, Public Affairs Quarterly 35(2): 83-93.
2020 “We Have No Reason to Think There Are No Reasons for Affective Attitudes,” Mind 129(513), 225-234.
2019 “Moral Perception and the Reliability Challenge,” Journal of Moral Philosophy 16(1), 63-73.
2019 “Groundwork for an Explanationist Account of Epistemic Coincidence,” Philosophers’ Imprint 19(4), 1-26.
2019 “Wage Exploitation and the Nonworseness Claim: Allowing the Wrong, to Do More Good,” Business Ethics Quarterly 29(2), 169-188.
2019 “Good Selves, True Selves: Moral Ignorance, Responsibility, and the Presumption of Goodness,” with David Shoemaker, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 98(3), 606-622.
2017 “Hybrid Non-Naturalism Does Not Meet the Supervenience Challenge,” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 12(3), 312-318.
2017 “On Leaving Room for Doubt: Using Frege-Geach to Illuminate Expressivism’s Problem with Objectivity,” Oxford Studies in Metaethics Vol. 12, 244-264.
2015 “A Hard Look at Moral Perception,” Philosophical Studies 172(8), 2055-2072.
2014 “Huck vs. JoJo: Moral Ignorance and the (A)symmetry of Praise and Blame,” with David Shoemaker, Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy Vol. 1, 7-27.
2014 “To Inspect and Make Safe: On the Morally Responsible Liability of Property Owners,” with Peter M. Jaworski, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 17(4), 697-709.
2014 “Do Property Rights Presuppose Scarcity?” Journal of Business Ethics 125(3), 531-537.
2013 “Brown on Mackie: Echoes of the Lottery Paradox,” Philosophia 41(3), 751-755.
2010 “First-Personal Authority and the Normativity of Rationality,” with Christian Coons, Philosophia 38(4), 733-740.
2010 “Insanity, Deep Selves, and Moral Responsibility: The Case of JoJo,” with David Shoemaker, Review of Philosophy and Psychology 1(3), 319-332.
Book Chapters
2017 “Ethical Judgment and Motivation,” with Tristram McPherson, Routledge Handbook of Metaethics, 308-323.
2009 “Heroes and the Ethics of Time Travel: Does the Present Matter?” Heroes and Philosophy (Wiley), 140-154.
Book Reviews
2019 Review of Methodology and Moral Philosophy, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
2018 Review of Explanation in Ethics and Mathematics: Debunking and Dispensability, Analysis.
2015 Review of Moral Psychology & Human Agency: Philosophical Essays on the Science of Ethics, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
2012 Review of David Enoch’s Taking Morality Seriously: A Defense of Robust Realism, The Journal of Value Inquiry 46(2), 259-267.
Presentations & Commentaries
2024 “Modern Moral Philosophy and the Problem of Creeping Consequentialism,” Philadelphia Normative Philosophy Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 4 October
2024 “The Ethics of Work and Other Goods of Human Origin,” Zicklin Center Workshop in Normative Business Ethics, Philadelphia, PA, 20 September
2024 “Beyond the Big Three: Remapping Modern Moral Philosophy,” Centre for Ethics, Law and Public Affairs, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, 23 April
2023 Commentary on Laura Tomlinson Makin’s “Normative Entailment and Practical Reasoning,” Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, CO, 12 August
2020 “Exorcising Consequentialism,” Cardiff University Philosophy Department Research Seminar, Online, 28 October
2020 “Exorcising Consequentialism,” Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics Faculty Workshop, Online, 18 September
2019 “On Accomplishment,” Ohio State/Maribor/Rijeka Conference in Moral Epistemology, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 27 May
2019 “On Accomplishment,” Durham University Philosophy Department Research Seminar, Durham, UK, 28 February
2019 “On Accomplishment,” University of Leeds Centre for Ethics and Metaethics Seminar, Leeds, UK, 6 February
2018 “Non-Naturalism and the ‘Third Factor’ Gambit,” Durham Normativity Seminar, Durham, UK, 24 October
2018 “On Leaving Space for Altruism,” with Peter M. Jaworski, GISME/CVSP Workshop on Current Issues in Ethics and Economics, Boulder, CO, 29 April
2018 “Non-Naturalism and the ‘Third Factor’ Gambit,” with Aaron Elliott, Knowing What to Do, Columbus, OH, 15 April
2017 Commentary on Derek Shiller’s “The Unity of Moral Attitudes,” with Tristram McPherson, Minds Online, 18-22 September
2017 Commentary on Zoë Johnson King’s “Accidentally Doing the Right Thing,” Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, CO, 11 August
2017 Commentary on Jonathan Simon’s “Moral Perception High and Low,” Invited Symposium on Moral Perception, APA Pacific Division Meeting, Seattle, WA, 14 April
2017 “Faraci on Metaphysics,” Junior Metaphysics Workshop, Blacksburg, VA, 8 April
2016 “Non-Naturalism and the ‘Third-Factor’ Gambit,” with Aaron Elliott, Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, CO, 14 August
2016 “Knowledge, Necessity and Defeat,” Moral and Political Philosophy Research Seminar, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, 6 June
2016 “Allowing the Wrong, to Bring About the Good,” Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics Faculty Workshop, Washington, DC, 18 March
2015 “On Leaving Room for Doubt: Using Frege-Geach to Illuminate Expressivism’s Problem with Objectivity,” Chapel Hill Metaethics Workshop, Chapel Hill, NC, 30 October
2015 “Knowledge, Necessity and Defeat,” Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, CO, 7 August
2014 “True Selves, Good Selves: Attributability and Normative Perspective,” with David Shoemaker, Experimental Philosophy of the Self, NYU Center for Bioethics, New York, NY, 13 December
2014 “On the Necessary Existence of God-minus,” with Christina Van Dyke, Southern Evangelical Seminary, Matthews, NC, 17 November
2014 “Non-Naturalism and the Conceptual Necessity of Supervenience,” Virginia Tech Philosophy Department Colloquium Series, Blacksburg, VA, 17 October
2014 “A Hard Look at Moral Perception,” PPE Workshop, Chapel Hill, NC, 30 August
2014 Commentary on Adam Lerner’s “Prudence, Perdurance, and the Separateness of Persons,” Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, CO, 9 August
2014 “On Leaving Room for Doubt: Using Frege-Geach to Illuminate Expressivism’s Problem with Objectivity,” Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, Bellingham, WA, 5 August
2014 Commentary on Derek Baker’s “Intuitions about Disagreement Do Not Support the Normativity of Meaning,” APA Pacific Division Meeting, San Diego, CA, 19 April
2014 “On Leaving Room for Doubt: Using Frege-Geach to Illuminate Expressivism’s Problem with Objectivity,” North Carolina Philosophical Society Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, 22 February
2013 “On Leaving Room for Doubt: A (Somewhat) New Semantic Problem for Expressivism,” Visiting Professor Workshop, Chapel Hill, NC, 17 August
2013 “A Hard Look at Moral Perception,” Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, CO, 8 August
2012 “Do Property Rights Presuppose Scarcity?” Humanities and Technology Association Conference, Bowie, MD, 6 October
2012 “Enemy of My Enemy: Nihilism and the Case for Cognitivism,” Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, CO, 9 August
2011 “Huck Finn vs. JoJo: Moral Ignorance and the (A)symmetry of Praise and Blame,” Poster Session at the APA Eastern Division Meeting, Washington, DC, 28 December
2010 Commentary on Robyn Gaier’s “The Second-Personal Perspective: An Other (and yet another) Argument for Externalism,” Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, CO, 14 August
Awards, Fellowships, Grants
2016 Finalist, Marc Sanders Prize in Metaethics (for “Knowledge, Necessity and Defeat”)
2014 Finalist, Marc Sanders Prize in Metaethics (for “On Leaving Room for Doubt: Using Frege-Geach to Illuminate Expressivism’s Problem with Objectivity”)
2011 Doctoral Research Fellow, Nanotechnology and Society Research Group, Northeastern University, NSF Grant No. SES-0609078 (award: $10,000)
2011 Experiment Month Participant, Yale University (sponsored by the American Philosophical Association)
2011 University-Wide Graduate Student Teaching Award Nominee
2010 Social Philosophy and Policy Center Graduate Student Scholar
2006-2008 Graduate Fellow, The Earhart Foundation (award: $34,000)
2005-2011 Graduate Assistant, Bowling Green State University
Professional Service
Technology Development
Founder (with Graham Leach-Krouse): Open Tower (https://open-tower.com)
Founder, developer, manager: Discussion Roulette (https://open-tower.com/discussionroulette)
Founder, developer, manager: MARGY (https://margymail.com)
Founder, developer, manager: Populus (https://populusjournal.com)
Public Philosophy
Founder (with Peter M. Jaworski): Donation Ethics (https://donationethics.com)
Event Development
2025 Co-organizer (with Brian Berkey and Peter M. Jaworski): TOMATO² : Talks on Morality Across The Ocean, 7-8 July
2017 Co-organizer (with Peter M. Jaworski): Workshop on Methodology in Applied Ethics, Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics, February 24-26
2011 Coordinator: Freedom, Paternalism and Morality, Bowling Green State University, April 1-2
Editorial Work
2014- Consulting Editor, Journal of the American Philosophical Association
2017 Co-editor, “Ethics and What Is Not Seen,” Special Issue of the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy.
2013 Editorial Assistant, Paternalism: Theory and Practice, edited by Christian Coons and Michael Weber. Cambridge University Press.
Journal Referee
Analytic Philosophy | Australasian Journal of Philosophy | Business Ethics Quarterly | Canadian Journal of Philosophy | Dialectica | Economics & Philosophy | Ergo | Erkenntnis | Ethics | European Journal of Philosophy | Grazer Philosophische Studien | International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics | Journal of the American Philosophical Association | Journal of Business Ethics | Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy | Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy | Journal of Moral Philosophy | Journal of Philosophical Research | Journal of Philosophy | Journal of Politics | Journal of Social Philosophy | Mind | Moral Philosophy and Politics | Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy | Oxford Studies in Metaethics | Pacific Philosophical Quarterly | Philosophia | Philosophical Psychology | Philosophical Quarterly | Philosophical Studies | Philosophy Compass | Philosophy & Social Criticism | Public Affairs Quarterly | Res Philosophica | Review of Philosophy and Psychology | Social Theory and Practice | Southern Journal of Philosophy | Southwest Philosophy Review | Synthese | Theoria | Topoi | Utilitas
Department Service
Durham University
2021-2023 Department Colloquium Organizer
2018-2023 IT/PR Officer and Web Developer
2023-2024 Aesthetics, Ethics & Politics Research and Teaching Cluster Head
2021-2023 Deputy Director of Research
2020-2021 Co-Director of Research
2019-2020 PPE Advisor and Exam Board Rep
UNC Chapel Hill
2014-2015 Judge, National High School Ethics Bowl
2014 Judge, Willie P. Mangum Medal in Oratory
2013 Judge, North Carolina High School Ethics Bowl
2013 Session Leader, Ethics & Leadership Conference, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
Virginia Tech
2013 MA Committee Member, Jessica McCormack, “Morality in the Meat Machine: An Examination of Moral Responsibility and Neuroscience in Cases of Early Life Stress,”
2012 MA Committee Member, Cory Johnson, “Suggestions for Deontic Logicians,” 2012
2012-2013 Faculty Advisor, Undergraduate Philosophy Club
Bowling Green State University
2008-2011 Graduate Chair, Philosophy Colloquium Committee
2009-2010 Graduate Representative to the Philosopy Graduate Committee
2008-2009 Vice President, Graduate Students for the Interdisciplinary Study of Neural and Cognitive Sciences
2007 Graduate Representative to the Philosophy Department
Teaching Experience
| Applied Ethics | Chapel Hill, Durham |
| Bioethics | Chapel Hill, Virginia Tech, Durham |
| Business Ethics | BGSU, Georgetown |
| Introduction to Ethics | BGSU, Chapel Hill |
| Introduction to Logic | BGSU, Chapel Hill online |
| Introduction to Philosophy | BGSU (and online) |
| Metaethics (Graduate) | Virginia Tech |
| Moral Theory | Virginia Tech, Durham |
| Philosophy of Death and Dying | BGSU (and online) |
| Philosophy of Information Technology | BGSU, Virginia Tech |
| Political Philosophy | Chapel Hill, Durham |