Department of PhilosophyI came to Penn in 2014 after a post-doc at Franklin & Marshall College and graduate school at the University of Nebraska and Princeton. I work in many areas of normative philosophy, from ethical theory to epistemology to aesthetics. I've written two monographs with Oxford University Press. The Importance of Being Rational appeared in 2018 and Knowing the Normative World: On the Epistemologies of Ethics and Aesthetics will appear in late 2025 or 2026. Lately I have been working on the ethics of love, the epistemology of suspension of judgment, the nature and importance of beauty, and, oddly, how all of these things converge.
I also write art criticism, mostly on my substack Critical Chunks, which you can check out here.
Full details can be found on my website.
