Research

 
 

Applied Ethics and Public Policy

My interests within applied ethics are quite broad, and I have published work on bioethics, environmental ethics, just war theory, and the ethics of technology.

Book:

  • Consequentialism and Environmental Ethics, Routledge, edited with Avram Hiller and Ramona Ilea, 2013

Papers:

  • Buying Luxuries and Saving Lives, Southwest Philosophical Studies, forthcoming in 2023

  • The Place of Political Forgiveness in Jus post Bellum, Underrepresented Perspectives on Forgiveness, edited by Court Lewis, (Vernon Press) forthcoming in 2022

  • “How Soon Is Now? On the Timing & Conditions for Adopting Widespread Use of Autonomous Vehicles,” Autonomous Vehicle Ethics: Beyond the Trolley Problem, edited by Ryan Jenkins et al. (Oxford University Press), Forthcoming

  • “The Equifax Hack,” Case Studies in Business Ethics (Broadview Press), Forthcoming.

  • “Liability to Deadly Force in War,” Who Should Die? edited by B.J. Strawser et al. (Oxford University Press), 2017: 13-32.

  • “Autonomous and Semi-Autonomous Robots in War,” Robot Ethics 2.0, edited by Patrick Lin et al., (Oxford University Press), 2017: 274-292.

  • “Third-Party Forgiveness,” The Philosophy of Forgiveness, Volume II: New Dimensions of Forgiveness, edited by Court Lewis (Vernon Press) 2016: 15-46

  • “Understanding Just Cause in Cyberwarfare,” Routledge Handbook of War and Ethics: Just War, edited by Fritz Alhoff, et al., (Routledge), 2013: 382-393.

  • “Voluntary Human Engineering, Climate Change, and N-Person Prisoners Dilemmas,” Ethics, Policy, & Environment 15 (2), 2012: 241-243.

  • “Just War Theory, Political Liberalism, and Non-Combatant Immunity,”Theoretical & Applied Ethics 1 (1), 2010.

Moral, Political, and LEgal Theory

Within moral theory, I work primarily on (and around) the consequentialist tradition and its history, though I have also published work on moral psychology. Some of my work on moral theory shades into areas of political and legal theory too.

Books:     

  • “On Liberty” by J.S. Mill, Broadview, edited 2015

  • Mill on Justice, Palgrave Macmillan, edited 2012

Papers:

  • Medical Deportation, Non-Citizen Patients, and Nonideal Theory, Applying Nonideal Theory to Bioethics: Living and Dying in a Nonideal World, edited by ElizabethVictor and Laura Guidry-Grimes (Springer Press), 2021: 357-374.

  • “Is There an Obligation to Abort? Act Utilitarianism and the Ethics of Procreation,” Essays in Philosophy 20 (1), 2019: 1-18.

  • “Rule Consequentialism and Disasters, Philosophical Studies 162 (2), 2013: 219-236.

  • “Legal Theory, Law, and Normativity,” Journal of Moral Philosophy 9 (1) 2012: 115-126, reprinted in Law and Legal Theory, edited by Thom Brooks, (Brill) 2013: 93-104.

  • “Rule Consequentialism and Scope,” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 15 (5) 2012: 631-646.

  • “The Objection from Justice and the Conceptual/Substantive Distinction,” Mill on Justice, edited by Leonard Kahn (Palgrave Macmillan), 2012: 198-220.

  • “Moral Blameworthiness and the Reactive Attitudes,” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 14 (2), 2011: 131-142.

  • “Conflict, Regret, and Modern Moral Philosophy,” New Waves in Ethics, edited by Thom Brooks (Palgrave Macmillan), 2011: 7-27.