Recent talks
“Working oneself up and Universal Basic Income”, Kant’s Project of Enlightenment. 14th International Kant Congress, Bonn, September 2024
“Kant's formula of humanity and migration”, Kant’s Project of Enlightenment. 14th International Kant Congress, Bonn, September 2024 (with Corinna Mieth)
“Beyond Non-Instrumentalization: Negative Ends, Mere Things and Mere Enemies”, Kant on Means, Ends and Trolleys, Bonn, September 2024 – Kant-Zentrum NRW video
“Was the Marking and Assessment Boycott Immoral? (No ... but it’s complicated)” Kant in Progress, St Andrews, August 2024
“Kant on uses and abuses of empirical practical reason”, Kant’s Application of Reason in Interplay, Frankfurt (online), July 2024
“A Defence of Overdemandingness Considerations in Climate Ethics”, Joint Sessions, Birmingham, July 2024
“A Defence of Overdemandingness Considerations in Climate Ethics”, Association for Social and Political Philosophy Annual Conference, Swansea, July 2024 (with Felix Pinkert)
“Is Not Having Children Asking Too Much?”, Society for Applied Philosophy, Oxford, June 2024 (with Felix Pinkert)
“Net Zero Policies and the Ethics of Procreation”, Natures, Cultures and Communities 5th UK-German Frontiers of Humanities Symposium, Berlin, June 2024
“Mere Means, Mere Things and Mere Enemies”, Celebrating Kant at 300: ‘Kant on Reason, Nature, & Freedom’, Dublin, May 2024,
“Was the Marking and Assessment Boycott Immoral? (No ... but it’s complicated)”, Kant’s Practical Philosophy Workshop, Leeds, May 2024
“Does the Formula of Humanity Prohibit (Some Forms of) Strike Action?”, Kantian Perspectives: Borders/Exploitation/Degradation, Bochum, February 2024
“Procreative Prerogatives and Climate Change”, The Future of Relationships, Cologne (with Felix Pinkert), December 2023
“The possibilities of Kantian philosophy in clinical legal education”, SAPERE, Bristol (with Omar Madhloom), November 2023
Kant on Universal Basic Income, Project workshop, Lancaster, November 2023
“Kant über die Pflicht zur Erziehung“, Kant und das Menschenrecht auf Bildung, Siegen, September 2023
“Kant on Being a Useful Member of the World and Universal Basic Income”,“Nature in Kant and Hegel” A Joint Conference of the Hegel Society of Great Britain and the UK Kant Society, Oxford, September 2023
Means, Mere Things and Mere Enemies: Kant on the Mistreatment of Migrants. 10th Multilateral Kant Colloquium "The Space of Feelings: Kant and His Legacy," Parma and Ferrara, August 2023
Kant and Overdemandingness … Again. Southampton Ethics Centre, Southampton, July 2023
Is Procreation Special? (with Felix Pinkert). Society for Applied Philosophy annual conference, Antwerp, June 2023
Kant on Bullshit Jobs. Kolloquium Praktische Philosophie, Cologne, June 2023
Using People Well, Treating People Badly – Mere Means and Mere Enemies. Agents on the Moral Edge, Hokkaido (online), May 2023
A Merely National "Universal" Basic Income and Global Justice. Seminario de investigación, UNAM, Mexico City (online), May 2023
Kant on Being a Useful Member of the World and Universal Basic Income. VI NAKS Biennial, Mexico City, March 2023
Recent project relevant publications
2025
Treating as a Mere Enemy. European Journal of Philosophy. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejop.70004
Kant on Bullshit Jobs – Mere Means and True Means. Journal of Social Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1111/josp.70004
Kant on Being a Useful Member of the World and Universal Basic Income. Ergo, 12: 15. doi.org/10.3998/ergo.7426
2024
Kant and Overdemandingness I: The Demandingness of Imperfect Duties. Philosophy Compass. https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12998 (co-authored with Joe Slater and Joe Saunders).
Working Oneself up and Universal Basic Income. Kantian Review, 29(2). https://doi.org/10.1017/S1369415424000153.
2023
Kant on the Normativity of Obligatory Ends. Journal of Ethics, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10892-023-09463-4
Is climate change really a reason not to have children? Here’s four reasons why it’s not that simple. The Conversation (co-authored with Felix Pinkert)
Is a merely National ‘Universal’ Basic Income Unjust?. Journal of Political Philosophy, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jopp.12289
2022
Why We Go Wrong – Beyond the Duty/Self-Love Dichotomy (co-authored with Joe Saunders). Inquiry, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0020174X.2022.2075457
The Use of the Formula of Humanity. Studi Kantiani, XXXV
2021
Rationalizing (Vernünfteln). Cambridge University Press
Kant on Thinking for Oneself and with Others – The Ethical A Priori, Openness and Diversity. Journal of Philosophy of Education, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12615
Poverty, Exploitation, Mere Things and Mere Means. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-021-10238-9
Kant on True Need. Kant Studien, https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/kant-2021-0030/html
Kant, Moral Overdemandingness and Self-Scrutiny. NOUS 25(2), 293-316
Moral Education and Transcendental Idealism. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 102(4),646–73 (co-authored with Joe Saunders).
2020
Carbon Footprint and Procreation. The Journal of Ethics (co-authored with Felix Pinkert). http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10892-020-09345-z
The Case against Different-Sex Marriage in Kant. Kantian Review 25(3), 441-64
Kant, Eudaimonism, Act-Consequentialism and the Fact of Reason. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 102(2), 209-41