Bio
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, where I have taught since 2022.
My research is in moral philosophy, broadly construed. One strand develops the dual aspect theory of normative reasons, according to which reasons are pairs of facts and pro-attitudes rather than facts alone. My book The Fundamentals of Reasons (OUP, 2024), co-authored with Mark Schroeder, offers a comprehensive introduction to this terrain. A second strand concerns moral motivation, moral worth, and the role of virtue in ethical life — including the relationship between consequentialism and agent-relative value. With N. G. Laskowski, I also work on the nature of gender, the virtue of honesty, and foundational questions in metaethics. I have additional interests in the philosophy of language, especially modality and expressivism.
My Ph.D. (2019) is from the University of Southern California, where I wrote a dissertation on normative reasons under Mark Schroeder. Before attending USC, I studied philosophy at the University of Toronto and at the University of St Andrews. Before that, I played music professionally.
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