Biography
I teach a range of papers from the undergraduate syllabus. Currently Moral Philosophy for Mods/Prelims, and Ethics and Aesthetics, but my teaching interests span a broader range including logic, philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics.
I work on a variety of topics in metaethics and meta-aesthetics. I am interested in realism and related debates including: evaluative testimony, evolutionary debunking arguments, blame and blameworthiness, and the relationship between realism and naturalism. I am also interested in epistemic normativity, and issues in aesthetics including artistic value, morally bad art, and forgeries.
2019 Two Dogmas of the Artistic-Ethical Interaction Debate Canadian Journal of Philosophy
2018 Moral Realism, Aesthetic Realism, and the Asymmetry Claim. Ethics 129: 39–69.
2017 Artistic Value is Attributive Goodness. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 75(4): 415-427.
2017 The Real Problem with Evolutionary Debunking Arguments. Philosophical Quarterly 67(268): 508-33.
2015 Conceptual Art and the Acquaintance Principle. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 73 (3): pp. 247-258.
2013 The Reality of (Non-Aesthetic) Artistic Value. Philosophical Quarterly 63 (252): pp. 492-508.
2009 Is Concrete Poetry Literature? Midwest Studies in Philosophy 33(1) 2009: pp.78-106.
Positions
- Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy
- Associate Professor in Metaethics, Faculty of Philosophy
Subjects
- Philosophy
