Research interests: environmental value, technological control of nature, objectivity & values in science, naturalism, modernization, secularization, environmental art & aesthetics, moral psychology, late modern philosophy (esp. Nietzsche)
Ph.D., University of Michigan (2019); B.A. & B.S., Stanford University (2011)
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PUBLICATIONS
Earthworks and Inorganic Ethics: Nonlife in the Anthropocene
Environmental Humanities (forthcoming)
On the Genealogy of Environmental Ethics
Environmental Ethics 48.2 (2026): 163–185
DOI: 10.5840/enviroethics2026618116 (open access)
'Producing Like a Plant': Artistic Simplicity and Environmental Understanding
Environmental Values (2026)
DOI: 10.1177/09632719261456349 (open access)
Revaluing Laws of Nature in Secularized Science
in Y. Ben-Menahem (ed.), Rethinking the Concept of Law of Nature (Springer, 2022), 347–377
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-96775-8_13 | preprint
Inconvenient Truth and Inductive Risk in Covid-19 Science
Philosophy of Medicine 3.1 (2022): 1–25
DOI: 10.5195/pom.2022.132 (open access)
Artistic Objectivity: From Ruskin's 'Pathetic Fallacy' to Creative Receptivity
British Journal of Aesthetics 61.4 (2021): 505–526
DOI: 10.1093/aesthj/ayaa041 | preprint
Classical Form or Modern Scientific Rationalization? Nietzsche on the Drive to Ordered Thought as Apollonian Power and Socratic Pathology
Journal of Nietzsche Studies 52.1 (2021): 105–134
DOI: 10.5325/jnietstud.52.1.0105 | preprint
(Mis)Understanding scientific disagreement: Success versus pursuit-worthiness in theory choice
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 85 (2021): 166–175
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2020.10.005 | preprint
How Anti-Humeans Can Embrace a Thermodynamic Reduction of Time's Causal Arrow
Philosophy of Science 88.5 (2021): 1161–1171
DOI: 10.1086/715514 | preprint
Nietzsche contra Sublimation
Journal of the History of Philosophy 58.4 (2020): 755–778
DOI: 10.1353/hph.2020.0075 | preprint
Sensory Force, Sublime Impact, and Beautiful Form
British Journal of Aesthetics 49.4 (2019): 449–464
DOI: 10.1093/aesthj/ayz033 | preprint
The Passions and Disinterest: From Kantian Free Play to Creative Determination by Power, via Schiller and Nietzsche
Ergo 6.9 (2019): 249–279
DOI: 10.3998/ergo.12405314.0006.009 (open access)
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