I am a Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Global Priorities Institute at the University of Oxford, where I am also a Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College. In Spring 2020, I completed my PhD in philosophy at the University of Arizona under the primary supervision of Jerry Gaus.
I work primarily in moral and political philosophy and, these days, especially on issues at the intersection of political philosophy and longtermism. I have also written on such topics as the ideal/nonideal theory debate, social experimentation, distributive justice, moral disagreement and uncertainty, punishment and blame, ethical consumption, and desire-satisfaction theories of well-being. Much of my work brings social scientific tools and evidence to bear on moral and political questions, and so falls under the umbrella of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (“PPE”).
I work primarily in moral and political philosophy and, these days, especially on issues at the intersection of political philosophy and longtermism. I have also written on such topics as the ideal/nonideal theory debate, social experimentation, distributive justice, moral disagreement and uncertainty, punishment and blame, ethical consumption, and desire-satisfaction theories of well-being. Much of my work brings social scientific tools and evidence to bear on moral and political questions, and so falls under the umbrella of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (“PPE”).