Research

My dissertation concerns the nature of action explanations, and seeks to bring new work on scientific explanation into conversation with theories of action and action explanations. In particular, I believe that non-causal theories of action are revealed as much more plausible in light of certain desiderata for theories of action explanation. 

In addition to my work on action, I am interested in several issues in normative and applied ethics. These include virtue-theoretical frameworks of well-being,  the nature of group agents and artificially-intelligent agents, the ethics of grief and remembrance, and the problem of fake news.

I also have an interest in 19th century European philosophy/philosophy of religion, particularly Kierkegaard, and am working on of several exciting projects in this area. These include: a Nietzschean critique of the technological revolution, and a project on Kierkegaard's religious pedagogy.

Publications

"Creation as Divine Absence: A Metaphysical Reframing of the Problem of Evil," Religious Studies, forthcoming. 

"Modeling Action: Recasting the Causal Theory," with Frank Cabrera, Analytic Philosophy, forthcoming.

"Echo Chambers and Social Media: On the Possibilities of a Tax Incentive Solution", Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 12 (7):13-19, 2023. 

"Well-Being and Moral Constraints: A Modified Subjectivist Account", Philosophia 1-26, online July 2022.

"Reasons Explanations (of Actions) as Structural Explanations," Synthese 1-37, 2021. 

"Arresting Time's Arrow: Death, Loss, and the Preservation of Real Union," forthcoming in Ethics and Time in the Philosophy of History: A Cross-Cultural Approach, Bloomsbury.

“Fake News and Epistemic Vice: Combating a Uniquely Noxious Market,” with Frank Cabrera, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, forthcoming.

"Online Misinformation and 'Phantom Patterns': Epistemic Exploitation in the Era of Big Data," with Frank Cabrera, Southern Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming.

"AI Recruitment Algorithms and the Dehumanization Problem," with Frank Cabrera, Ethics and Information Technology, 1-11, 2021.

"Evidence Through a Glass, Darkly," Australasian Philosophical Review, 56-61, 2021.

"Arkangel and the Death of God: Black Mirror's Nietzschean Critique of Technology's Soteriological Scheme," with Amber Bowen, Black Mirror and Theology, 101-115. Lexington: Fortress Academic, 2022.

“Must We Be Perfect?: A Case Against Supererogation,” with Calum Miller, forthcoming in Inquiry: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, pp. 1-28.

"Kierkegaard and Binswanger on Faith’s Relation to Love: A Response to Schrjivers," (published with a reply from Joeri Schrjivers), Syndicate, 2018.

Book Reviews

Spirituality and the Good Life, ed. by David McPherson, Journal of Moral Philosophy, forthcoming. 

Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going On to Ethics, by Cora Diamond, Journal of Value Inquiry, forthcoming. 

Works in Progress

"Actions, Addictions, Causes", under review.

"MAiD Laws and the Solitude of Suffering", in progress. 

"Thou and the Manifold: De-Consequentializing the Duty of Rescue", with Marcos Picchio, in progress.