My general philosophical interests are in ethics, social and political theory and agency theory. I have current projects on trust, reactive attitudes, anger, the concept of desert, and punishment, among other topics.
My dissertation concerns the problem of manipulation for compatibilist accounts of moral responsibility. I defend compatibilism against this objection, arguing that people whose attitudes are manipulated by outside interveners are nonetheless fully morally responsible for what they do so long as the people satisfy compatibilist conditions on being morally responsible.
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Presentations
“Trust and the Trickster Problem”
2009 Eastern APA Meeting (refereed)
2009 Feminist Ethics and Social Theory Conference (refereed)
2009 RoME Ethics Congress (refereed poster)
Comments on Michael Ferry’s “Does Morality Demand Our Very Best? On Moral Prescriptions and the Line of Duty” 2009 RoME Ethics Congress (invited)
Comments on Ben Vilhauer’s “Free Will and Reasonable Doubt” 2008 Pacific Division APA Meeting (invited)
“Plum-Confused about Blame and Responsibility” 2007 Southern California Philosophy Conference (invited)
“Strawson on What to Feel, and Why” (with Dan Farrell) 2006 Contemporary Analytic Philosophy Conference on Regulating Attitudes with Reasons (invited)
Comments on Andrei Buckareff’s “Protecting Intentions from Mental Birth Control” Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference on Action, Ethics, and Responsibility, 2006 (invited)
“Mitigation and Responsibility” 2005 32nd Conference on Value Inquiry (refereed)
“Responsibility and Integrity” North American Society for Social Philosophy, 2004 (refereed)
“Kantian Dirty Hands” 2003 North American Society for Social Philosophy (refereed)
“Whose Evaluative Practice, Which Self-Understanding?” 2002 Ohio Philosophical Association Meeting (refereed)
“Feyerabend’s Incommensurability Thesis in Against Method” 2000 Ohio Philosophical Association Meeting (refereed)
“Why Scientists Don't Misunderstand Each Other--Feyerabend on Incommensurability” 2000 Kentucky State Annual Conference on Science and Culture (refereed)
