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Hi there. I am a moral philosopher and applied ethicist at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. I'm a Lecturer at the Fenner School of Environment & Society, and an Affiliated Member of the School of Philosophy. I am also a Mission Specialist and Space Ethicist at ANU's Institute for Space (InSpace). Before coming to ANU, I was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton University (2019-2020), and before then (2018) a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Prior to that, I held tenured lectureships at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Liverpool, where I was a Senior Lecturer.  I am currently an Associate Editor at the Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy. In addition to my academic work, I also write for popular media on a range of topics, having published opinion pieces in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, and the Canberra Times.

My main research interests at the moment are space ethics, military ethics, ethics of AI, animal ethics, utilitarianism, value theory, well-being, and freewill and responsibility.

I have written or edited a number of books, including Should We Maximise Utility?: A Debate About Utilitarianism (with James Lenman) (Routledge, 2024), Pandemic Ethics (Bartleby Books, 2000), The Passing of Momentary Well-Being (Routledge, 2018), and The Moral Complexities of Eating Meat (OUP, 2016). 

I have also published articles in high-profile journals such as The Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophical Studies, the Journal of Applied Philosophy, Utilitas, and American Philosophical Quarterly. For a full list of articles and downloadable access, click here.