Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Edinburgh
Research interests: environmental value, technological control of nature, objectivity & values in science, modernization, secularization, artistic understanding, environmental aesthetics, moral psychology, post-Kantian philosophy (especially Nietzsche)
Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Michigan (2019); B.A. in Philosophy and B.S. in Physics, Stanford University (2011)
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Publications:
'Revaluing Laws of Nature in Secularized Science'
in Y. Ben-Menahem (ed.), Rethinking the Concept of Law of Nature (Springer, 2022), 347–377
published version | preprint
'Inconvenient Truth and Inductive Risk in Covid-19 Science'
Philosophy of Medicine 3.1 (2022): 1–25
published version | PDF
'Artistic Objectivity: From Ruskin's 'Pathetic Fallacy' to Creative Receptivity'
British Journal of Aesthetics 61.4 (2021): 505–526
published version | 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
published version | preprint
'(Mis)Understanding scientific disagreement: Success versus pursuit-worthiness in theory choice'
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 85 (2021): 166–175
published version | preprint
'How Anti-Humeans Can Embrace a Thermodynamic Reduction of Time's Causal Arrow'
Philosophy of Science 88.5 (2021): 1161–1171
published version | preprint
'Nietzsche contra Sublimation'
Journal of the History of Philosophy 58.4 (2020): 755–778
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'Sensory Force, Sublime Impact, and Beautiful Form'
British Journal of Aesthetics 49.4 (2019): 449–464
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'The Passions and Disinterest: From Kantian Free Play to Creative Determination by Power, via Schiller and Nietzsche'
Ergo 6.9 (2019): 249–279
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