Research

Most of my work is in social and political philosophy, although I still occasionally publish in social epistemology.  I often draw on formal and experimental tools from the biological and social sciences.  

In political philosophy I have been primarily interested in liberalism and contractarianism and have written on classic theorists such as Locke and Hobbes as well as more contemporary thinkers such as Rawls and Gauthier. 

My work in social epistemology focuses on how the social structure of science makes for better or worse scientific inquiry.