Metaethics, Applied Ethics (esp. Ethics of Technology), Experimental Philosophy

Normative Ethics, Epistemology, Logic

Bowling Green State University, Ph.D. in Philosophy, 2012
Dissertation: How to Be (and How Not to Be) a Normative Realist
Committee: David Shoemaker (chair), Christian Coons, David Copp, Tristram McPherson, Sara Worley

Bowling Green State University, M.A. in Philosophy, 2007
Thesis: Moral Status and Non-Current Capacities

Rutgers College, Rutgers University, B.A. High Honors in Philosophy, 2004
Honors Thesis: Untitled (on Popper and Wittgenstein)

Visiting Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech, 2012-2013
Adjunct Faculty, Bowling Green State University, 2011-2012

"Huck vs. JoJo: Moral Ignorance and the (A)symmetry of Praise and Blame." Forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy. (co-author: David Shoemaker)
"Brown on Mackie: Echoes of the Lottery Paradox." Online First at Philosophia.
"First-Personal Authority and the Normativity of Rationality" Philosophia 38:4 (2010): 733-740. (co-author: Christian Coons)
"Insanity, Deep Selves, and Moral Responsibility: The Case of JoJo" Review of Philosophy and Psychology 1:3 (2010): 319-332. (co-author: David Shoemaker)

Review of David Enoch, Taking Morality Seriously: A Defense of Robust Realism. The Journal of Value Inquiry 46:2 (2012): 259-267.
"Heroes and the Ethics of Time Travel: Does the Present Matter?" In Heroes and Philosophy, edited by David Kyle Johnson and William Irwin, 140-154. Wiley, 2009.

Editorial Assistant, Paternalism: Theory and Practice, edited by Christian Coons and Michael Weber. Forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

"Do Property Rights Presuppose Scarcity?" Humanities and Technology Association Conference, Bowie, MD, October 6, 2012 (paper completed for 2011 NSRG fellowship, funding through NSF (Grant No. SES-0609078))
"Enemy of My Enemy: Nihilism and the Case for Cognitivism," Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, CO, August 9, 2012
"Huck Finn vs. JoJo: Moral Ignorance and the (A)symmetry of Praise and Blame," Poster Session at the APA Eastern Division Meeting, Washington, DC, December 28, 2011
Commentary on Robyn Gaier's "The Second-Personal Perspective: An Other (and yet another) Argument for Externalism," Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, CO, August 14, 2010

"Can Moorean Realism Shoulder Its Explanatory Burden?"
"Conceptualizing Queerness"
"Do Property Rights Presuppose Scarcity?"
“On Leaving Room for Doubt: A (Somewhat) New Semantic Problem for Expressivism”
"The Moral Foundations of Liability" (co-author: Peter Jaworski)

"A Hard Look at Moral Perception"
"On the Necessary Existence of God-minus" (co-author: Daniel Linford)

Ethics
The International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
Philosophia
Philosophical Psychology
Social Theory and Practice

Experimental Philosophy
PEA Soup

American Philosophical Association

Doctoral Research Fellow, Nanotechnology and Society Research Group, Northeastern University, 2011 (award: $10,000)
Experiment Month Participant, Yale University (sponsored by the American Philosophical Association), 2011
Graduate Assistant, Bowlincg Green State University, 2005-2011
University-Wide Graduate Student Teaching Award Nominee, 2011
Social Philosophy and Policy Center Graduate Student Scholar, 2010
Graduate Fellow, The Earhart Foundation, 2006-2008 (award: $34,000)

See Teaching Portfolio here.

Cory Johnson, Virginia Tech, MA Thesis (on deontic logic)
Jessica McCormack, Virginia Tech, MA Thesis (on moral responsibility)

Faculty Advisor, Virginia Tech Philosophy Club, 2012-2013

Conference Coordinatory, "Freedom, Paternalism and Morality," 2011
Graduate Chair, Philosophy Colloquium Committee, 2008-2011
Graduate Representative to the Philosopy Graduate Committee, 2009-2010
Vice President, Graduate Students for the Interdisciplinary Study of Neural and Cognitive Sciences, 2008-2009
Graduate Representative to the Philosophy Department, 2007