For a full list of works under submission, works undergoing an R&R, works in progress, more presentations, or for other related details, send me an email.
Though the focus of my research is not political theory, I occasionally submit to academic journals or other venues relevant to political organizing. See my 'public phil & organizing' page for more info on why I do that.
Mind & cognition
"Does effort matter for skill?" in Synthese (2025)
“The evolution of combinatoriality and compositionality in hominid tool use: a comparative perspective” in the International Journal of Primatology (2022) (co-authored with Shelby S.J. Putt, Chloe Holden, Lana Ruck, and P. Thomas Schoenemann)
“What’s the appropriate target of allocative justification?” in the American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience (2021) (co-authored with Ricky Mouser)
Political theory & organizing
"Organizing the South: A role for graduate workers" in New Labor Forum (2025) (co-authored with Samuel Smucker)
“Towards a Political Education of Mutual Feeling” in: Falsework, Smalltalk: Political Education, Aesthetic Archives, and Recitations of a Future in Common (2021) (co-authored with Colin Eubank)
*Indicates invited, **Indicates refereed
November 2025 at the University of Florida workshop on Skilled Social Action and Artificial Intelligence*
Comments on Judith Martens on "From Social Habit to Social Displacement: AI-Driven Transformation of Our Social Niches"
August 2025 at the International Society of Social Ontology, Dublin, Ireland**
“Shop Floor Social Ontology: On the role of collective intentionality in nonideal social ontology”
March 2025 at the University of British Columbia Okanagan Department of Philosophy, Kelowna, British Columbia*
“Does Doctor AI Dream of Electric Patients?: On Expertise and AI”
December 2024 at the Collective Behavior and Intelligence Seminar Series: St. Andrews University, St. Andrews, Scotland*
“Collective Information Processing”
October 2024 at the Defining Cognitive Science Series: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia*
“Using Cognitive Science to better study collective intelligence”
July 2024 at the International Society of Social Ontology, Durham, North Carolina**
“What’s the proper level of analysis for social skilled action?”
June 2024 at the Trinity Workshop on Skill, Expertise, and Control, Dublin, Ireland**
“The Role of Effort in Skill”
March 2024 at Approaching Academia: A conference on class and culture at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio*
“How and why to organize academics in Red States”
September 2023 at Group Know-How and Joint Expertise, Antwerp, Belgium**
“How Skilled Social Action Challenges Traditional Accounts of Skill”
July 2023 at The Diverse Intelligences Summit, St. Andrews, Scotland*
“Can artificial agents perform social skills?”
March 2023 at PERITIA: The Ethics of Trust and Expertise, Dublin, Ireland**
“Jilted Experts and Shifting Standards”
February 2023 at The Central Division of the American Philosophical Association – AAPT Teaching Hub, Denver, Colorado, United States*
“The University Works Because We Do: Why (and How) to Organize in Academia”
January 2023 at The Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, Montreal, Canada**
“The social dimension of expert action”
September 2022 at the Joint Conference on Language Evolution, Kanazawa, Japan**
“The evolution of combinatoriality and compositionality in hominid tool use: a comparative perspective” - joint work with Shelby S.J. Putt, Chloe Holden, Lana Ruck, and P. Thomas Schoenemann
June 2022 at PERITIA: The Ethics of Trust and Expertise, Yerevan, Armenia**
“Taking the ‘Expert’ out of ‘Expert Systems’ - joint work with Annalise Norling
June 2022 at PERITIA: The Ethics of Trust and Expertise, Yerevan, Armenia**
“Expert testimonial failures and trust-building” - joint work with Annalise Norling and Luke Capek
March 2022 at the Cognitive Science Colloquium at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
“Taking the ‘Expert’ out of ‘Expert Systems’"
The top photo is of me at PERITIA 2022 in Yerevan, Armenia. Of the photos in the center, the left is from the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute in 2023 at St. Andrews. The right is of me putting the final touches on a presentation, also at PERITIA.