Research

Edited Book

Fittingness: Essays in the Philosophy of Normativity (co-edited with Rach Cosker-Rowland). Oxford University Press (2022).

​Articles & Chapters

'Forever Fitting Feelings'. Forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

'The Fittingness-First Approach'. Forthcoming in David Copp and Connie Rosati (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Metaethics, OUP.

'Fitting Attitude Theories of Value'. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2023). Link.

'In Defense of the Right Kind of Reason' with Stephanie Leary. In Chris Howard and Rach Cosker-Rowland (eds.), Fittingness, OUP (2022).

'Fittingness: A User's Guide' with Rach Cosker-Rowland. In Chris Howard and Rach Cosker-Rowland (eds.), Fittingness, OUP (2022).

'Consequentialists Must Kill'. Ethics 131 (2021): 727-753. Link.

'Weighing Epistemic and Practical Reasons for Belief'. Philosophical Studies 177 (2020): 2227-43. Link.

'Fitting Love and Reasons for Loving'. Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics 6 (2019): 116-137. Link. 

'The Fundamentality of Fit'. Oxford Studies in Metaethics 14 (2019): 216-236. Winner of the Marc Sanders Prize in Metaethics. Link.

'Fittingness'. Philosophy Compass 13 (2018): e12542. Link.

'In Defense of the Wrong Kind of Reason'. Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 5 (2016): 53-62. Link.

'Transparency and the Ethics of Belief'. Philosophical Studies ​173 (2016): 1191-1201. Link.

Reviews

'Review of Getting Things Right: Fittingness, Reasons, and Value, by Conor McHugh and Jonathan Way'. Commissioned for Ethics.

'Review of Expressing Our Attitudes: Explanation and Expression in Ethics, by Mark Schroeder'. Ethics 127 (2017): 806-812. Link.

In Progress

[Book manuscript on the ethics of attitudes]

[Paper on agent-relative value]

[Paper on affective responses to virtual phenomena]

​[Paper on moral contingentism]
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