CV

Areas of Specialization

History of Philosophy (esp. Kant and Schopenhauer), Metaethics, Ethics of Persuasion

Areas of Competence

Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Ancient Philosophy

Employment

University of Washington, Seattle

Associate Professor, September 2017 - present

Assistant Professor, September 2013 - September 2017

University of Melbourne

Gerry Higgins Lecturer in the History of Philosophy, July 2011 - July 2013

New York University

Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, August 2010 - May 2011

Education

New York University, Department of Philosophy

Ph.D. May 2010, M.A. January 2007

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Philosophie

Visiting Student. April-July 2009

Reed College, Philosophy

B.A. May 2003

Books

Kant’s Lasting Legacy: Essays in Honor of Béatrice Longuenesse

Editor, with Stefanie Grüne, Routledge Press (under contract)

The New Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer 

Editor, with Sandra Shapshay, Cambridge University Press (under contract)

Kant’s Fundamental Assumptions.

Editor, with Colin McLear. Oxford University Press (under contract).

Comparative Metaethics: Neglected Perspectives on the Foundations of Morality

Editor. Routledge Press (2019)

Compassionate Moral Realism

Oxford University Press (2018)

Articles and Book Chapters 

“Kant on Modality” (with Aaron Barker)

The Oxford Handbook of Kant, Anil Gomes and Andrew Stephenson (eds.). Oxford University Press (forthcoming) 

“Schopenhauer’s Five-Dimensional Normative Ethics” (with Kayla Mehl)

The Schopenhauerian Mind, David Bather-Woods and Timothy Stoll (eds.). Routledge Press (2024), 213-27.

“Reply to Bollen’s ‘Towards a Clear and Fair Conceptualization of Empathy’.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 12:9 (2023): 10–14.

"Kant's Derivation of the Moral 'Ought' from a Metaphysical 'Is'" 

The Sensible and Intelligible Worlds, Nicholas Stang and Karl Schafer (eds.) Oxford University Press (2022)

“Schopenhauer’s Titus Argument”

Schopenhauer’s Moral Philosophy, Patrick Hassan (ed.). Routledge Press (2022), 31-51

“Schopenhauer on the Content of Compassion”

Noûs 55:4 (2021), 782-99

“Spinoza and Kant”

The Blackwell Companion to Spinoza, Yitzhak Melamed (ed.)

Blackwell Press (2021)

"Kant’s (Non-Question-Begging) Refutation of Cartesian Scepticism"

Kantian Review 24:1 (2019), 77-101

"Never Mind the Intuitive Intellect: Applying Kant's Categories to Noumena"

Kantian Review 23:1 (2018), 27-40

"Schopenhauer and Contemporary Metaethics"

Palgrave Schopenhauer Handbook, Sandra Shapshay (ed.)

Palgrave (2018), 239-60

"Mendelssohn, Kant, and the Mereotopology of Immortality" (with Jonathan Simon)

Ergo 4:29 (2017), 821-44

"Kant on Impenetrability, Touch, and the Causal Content of Perception"

European Journal of Philosophy 25:4 (2017), 1411-1433

"Moral Realism in Spinoza's Ethics"

The Cambridge Critical Guide to Spinoza's Ethics, Yitzhak Melamed (ed.)

Cambridge University Press (2017), 248-65

"Schopenhauer and Non-Cognitivist Moral Realism"

Journal of the History of Philosophy 55: 2 (2017), 293–316

"Lockean Empathy"

Southern Journal of Philosophy 54:1 (2016), 87-106

"Reason in the Short Treatise"

The Young Spinoza, Yitzhak Melamed (ed.)

Oxford University Press (2015), 133-143

"Hume versus the Vulgar on Resistance, Nisus, and the Impression of Power"

Philosophical Studies 172:2 (2015), 305-319

"Does Kant Demand Explanations for All Synthetic A Priori Claims?"

Journal of the History of Philosophy 52:3 (2014), 549-576

"Kant's One Self and the Appearance/Thing-in-Itself Distinction"

Kant-Studien 104:4 (2013), 421-441

"Kant's Appearances and Things in Themselves as Qua-Objects"

Philosophical Quarterly 63:252 (2013), 520-545

"Spinoza on Destroying Passions with Reason"

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 85:1 (2012), 139-160

"Kant's Metaphysics of the Self"

Philosophers' Imprint 10:8 (2010), 1-21

"The Mind and Body as 'One and the Same Thing' In Spinoza"

British Journal for the History of Philosophy 17:5 (2009), 897-919

Public Philosophy

"Helping philosophy students persuade for the November 3 election"

Blog of the American Philosophical Association, Oct. 26, 2020

"In the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, what should you say to someone who refuses to wear a mask?"

The Conversation, Aug. 24, 2020

Book Reviews and Commentaries

"Moral Principles in May’s Regard for Reason in the Moral Mind"

Behavioral and Brain Sciences (forthcoming, with a response by May)

Melissa Merritt, Kant on Reflection and Virtue

Mind (forthcoming)

Eric Watkins (ed.), Kant on Persons and Agency

Kantian Review (forthcoming)

Lucy Allais. Manifest Reality.

Virtual Critique 2016

Dina Emundts (ed.), Self, World, and Art: Metaphysical Topics in Kant and Hegel

International Yearbook of German Idealism: Bewusstsein/Consciousness, Sally Sedgwick & Dina Emundts (eds.). De Gruyter (2016), 281-85

Nathaniel Goldberg, Kantian Conceptual Geography

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2015.07.27

Corey Dyck. Kant and Rational Psychology.

Virtual Critique 2015.06.24, with a reply by Dyck

Julian Wuerth, Kant on Mind, Action, and Ethics (with Spencer Paulson)

Kantian Review 20:3 (2015), 512-16

Karl Ameriks, Kant's Elliptical Path

Philosophy in Review 34:1-2 (2014), 1-3

Yitzhak Melamed, Spinoza's Metaphysics: Substance and Thought

Leibniz Review 23 (2013), 187-194, with a reply by Melamed

John Skorupski, The Domain of Reasons

Review of Metaphysics 66:4 (2013), 852-854

Patricia Kitcher, Kant's Thinker

British Journal for the History of Philosophy 19:6 (2011), 1229-1231

Arthur Melnick, Kant's Theory of the Self

British Journal for the History of Philosophy 18:5 (2010), 953-955

Michael N. Forster, Kant and Skepticism

Journal of the History of Philosophy 47:2 (2009), 319-320

Other Publications

“Empathy vs. Compassion: A Concluding Discussion” (with Caroline Bollen). Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 13 (2): 8–11.

Deontological commentaries, in Real World AI Ethics for Data Scientists: Practical Case Studies, Tracey Dowdeswell and Nachshon Goltz (eds.), in Collaboration with Peter Singer and Yip Fai Tse. Routledge: Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Science Series (2023)

"appearance" and "impression"

The Cambridge Kant Lexicon, Julian Wuerth (ed.) 

Cambridge University Press (forthcoming)

Presentations

"Compassion without Cuteness"

-New York University, April 2018

"Compassionate Moral Realism"

-Reed College, November 2015

-University of Victoria, January 2016

"How Kant refutes Cartesian idealism"

-North American Kant Society Pacific Meeting, November 2014

"Kant's derivation of the moral 'ought' from a metaphysical 'is'" 

-University of Miami workshop on Kant, April 2014

-University of Victoria, January 2014

"Kant on perception and impenetrability"

-Simon Fraser University, September 2013

-University of Oklahoma, January, 2013

-University of Washington, January 2013

-University of New Mexico, February 2013

-University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, February 2013

-University of Nebraska, February 2013

"Hume on nisus and the impression of force"

-Australian Metaphysics Conference, ANU Kioloa, April 2013

"The Mind as an Idea in Spinoza's Short Treatise"

-Eastern Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 2012 

-Deakin University, April 2012

"Why can't we perceive necessities, Kant?"

-Columbia University, September 2012

-Monash University, October 2012

-University of Sydney, November 2012

"Qua-Objects and Kant's Distinction between Appearances and Things in Themselves" 

-La Trobe University, May 2012

"One Self, One World in Kant"

-Miami Workshop on New Directions in Kant, December 2011

"Empathetic Moral Realism"

-Australian National University, November 2011

"Reason in the Short Treatise"

-Conference on the Young Spinoza, Johns Hopkins University, September 2011

"Does Kant Aim to Explain All Synthetic A Priori Judgments?"

-Eastern Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 2010

"Spinoza on the Power of Reason over the Passions"

-New England Colloquium in Early Modern Philosophy, Yale University, May 2010

-Reed College, January 2010

-Colgate University, January 2010

-Leibniz-Preis-Forschungsprojeckt Colloquium, Humboldt University, Berlin, June 2009

"Kant on the Constitution of Everyday Objects"

-University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, January 2010

-Frankfurt University, Frankfurt am Main, June 2009

"Spinoza, Kant and the Moral Powers of Reason"

-Washington DC Spinoza Society, Goethe Institute of Washington, October 2009

"The Metaphysics of the Self in Kant"

-Humboldt University, Berlin, June 2009

"The Identity of the Self in Kant's Third Paralogism"

-Workshop on Kant on the Identity of Persons, Amiens Universite de Picardie, May 2008

"A Kantian Account of Epistemic Normativity"

-Seoul National University/NYU Micro-Conference, February 2007

"Two Arguments Against the Particular Content Reading of Nicolas Malebranche's 'General Volitions'"

-Pacific meeting of the American Philosophical Association, March 2006 

Invited comments  

Author-meets-critics on Justin Clarke-Doane, Morality and Mathematics

-Canadian Philosophical Association Meeting, June 2019

Comments on Karl Ameriks (Notre Dame)

-NYU Conference on History of Philosophy, November 2018

Comments on Thomas Moore (Brown): “Regulativity in the Critique of Pure Reason.”

-North American Kant Society Biennial Meeting, May 2018

Comments on James Messina, "The Metaphysics of Kantian Intuitions"

-Pacific meeting of the American Philosophical Association, March 2016

Author-meets-critics on Corey Dyck, Kant & Rational Psychology

-Canadian Philosophical Meeting, May/June 2015

-Online at Virtual Critique, with a reply by Dyck

Comments on Andrew Brook, "Apperception and Dark Representations"

-Canadian Philosophical Meeting, May/June 2015

Comments on Eugene Marshall, "From Passion to Action"

-Eastern meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 2012

Comments on Richard Swinburne, "Does God Exist?"

-Veritas Forum, New York, April 2011

Comments on Jeff Edwards, "Moral Worth in Kant and Hume"  

-New York Idealism Workshop, March 2011

Fellowships and Awards

Royalty Research Fund Scholar Program, University of Washington, 2016

Faculty Teaching Support Fellowship, University of Melbourne, 2012

Graduate Fellow, New York Institute of Philosophy, 2009-2010

Dean's Dissertation Fellowship, 2009-2010

DAAD Scholarship, for study in Germany, 2008

Fulbright Award (declined in order to accept DAAD), 2008

Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Prize, Pacific APA, March 2006

MacCracken Fellowship, NYU, 2004-2009

Edwin N. Garlan Prize in Philosophy, Reed College, 2003

Phi Beta Kappa Society, Reed College. Admitted May, 2003

Commendation for Academic Excellence, Reed College, 2002-2003

Commendation for Academic Excellence, Reed College, 2001-2002

Robert C. Byrd Scholarship, State of New Mexico, 1999-2003

Service

Article referee: 

-Ancient Philosophy

-Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie

-British Journal for the History of Philosophy

-Canadian Journal of Philosophy

-History of Philosophy Quarterly

-Journal of Moral Philosophy

-Journal of the History of Philosophy

-Pacific Philosophical Quarterly

-Philosophers' Imprint

-Philosophical Papers

-Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

-Res Philosophica

-Southern Journal of Philosophy

Book referee:

-MIT Press

-Oxford University Press

-Routledge Press

Co-Editor (with John Morrison), PhilPapers.org,"Spinoza"

Editor, PhilPapers.org, "Spinoza: Epistemology"

Editor, PhilPapers.org, "Spinoza: Works"

Editor, PhilPapers.org, "Kant: Philosophy of Mind"

Co-Founder, New York Institute of Philosophy Outreach Program

Volunteer Instructor, New York Institute of Philosophy Outreach Program, 2008-2010

Judge, 2010 Long Island Ethics Bowl

Judge, 2012 VAPS Philosothon

At NYU:

Graduate Student Representative, 2007-2008

Invited panel member, Departmental Orientation for New TAs, 2007, 2008

Curriculum committee, 2004-2005

Paper reviewer for NYU/Columbia Graduate Student Conference, 2004-2009

Organizer, Washington Square Circle, Spring 2006-Spring 2008