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Hello and welcome to my website!  I am a Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of California, San Diego.  Here you can find links to papers and abstracts, course syllabi, my CV, and more.

News

-I am on sabbatical for the 2024-2025 year, and in January will begin a visiting fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford.                   

-Click here for The Moral Judgments Project.  Our new  article, "Beyond Killing One to Save Five: Sensitivity to Ratio and Probability in Moral Judgement", is now available in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

 

      

Some Recent and Forthcoming Publications

"Responsibility and Reasons-Responsiveness" (with Manuel Vargas), Freedom, Responsibility, and Value Essays in Honor of John Martin Fischer,  edited by Taylor W. Cyr, Andrew Law, and Neal A. Tognazzini (Routledge, 2024) 

"Forgiveness and Letting Go: Ways of Changing the Normative Landscape"  Revista de Estudios Social (2023).        

“Beyond Killing One To Save Five: Sensitivity to Ratio and Probability in Moral Judgment" (with Arseny A. Ryazanov, Shawn Tinghao Wang, Craig R.M. McKenzie, and Samuel C. Rickless), Journal of Experimental Psychology (2023).

Trolley Problems Reimagined: Sensitivity to Risk, Ratio, and Comparisons” (with Samuel C. Rickless, Arseny A. Ryazanov, and Craig R.M. McKenzie), Issues in Experimental Moral Philosophy, edited by Fernando Aguiar, Hugo Viciana, and Antonio Gaitán (Routledge, 2023) 

“Non-Consequentialist Principles Under Conditions of Uncertainty: A Framework” (with Sam Rickless), The Trolley Problem: Classic Philosophical Arguments, edited by Hallvard Lillehammer (Cambridge University Pres, 2023).   

Recent and Upcoming Presentations

"TBA"
Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar, University of Oxford
February 3, 2025 

"Desert and Degrees of Liability"
Conference in Honor of Richard Arneson, University of Glasgow
December 11-12, 2024  

"Standing, Blame, and Criticism"
 Department of Philosophy, University of York
October 2, 2024    

"Standing, Roles, and Kinds of Blame"
Workshop on Blame, Forgiveness and Apologies", University of Leuven
July 13, 2024

"Responsibility For Work and Its Effects" (with Aaron Chipp-Miller)
Workshop on Blame and Forgiveness at Work, St. Mary's College
April 12, 2024

"Threshold Deontology and the Distribution of Risk: Asking the Right Questions"
International Colloquium on Philosophy of Neuroscience, Rio de  Janeiro (via zoom)
April 3, 2024