I am currently an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Clemson University. I received my PhD from the University of Chicago in 2019, with a dissertation in which I defended a radical form of realism about value. Prior to this, I completed the BPhil and MMathPhil at the University of Oxford.
The central thread guiding my research is a concern with the nature of value, broadly construed, and the nature of our relationship to it as minded creatures. This motivates my interest in a set of questions situated within ethics, metaethics, aesthetics, moral psychology and moral epistemology, and the philosophy of mind. At the same time, my research wears its historical heart on its sleeve; my work on these contemporary topics is informed and inspired by my interest in a number of figures from the history of philosophy, especially Plato, Kant, and Nietzsche.
My partner, Pascal Brixel, is also a philosopher; you can find his website here.
The central thread guiding my research is a concern with the nature of value, broadly construed, and the nature of our relationship to it as minded creatures. This motivates my interest in a set of questions situated within ethics, metaethics, aesthetics, moral psychology and moral epistemology, and the philosophy of mind. At the same time, my research wears its historical heart on its sleeve; my work on these contemporary topics is informed and inspired by my interest in a number of figures from the history of philosophy, especially Plato, Kant, and Nietzsche.
My partner, Pascal Brixel, is also a philosopher; you can find his website here.
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