US Air Force Academy

Faculty Member, Department of Philosophy

Associate Professor

Faculty of Humanities

Thesis Title: A Theory of Value

About

I am currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado and was an Assistant Professor there before that.  I have also been a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta and a Visiting Scholar at both the Yale University Center for Bioethics and the Hastings Center for Bioethics.  I completed my doctorate at the University of Oxford (Magdalen College) under the supervision of Derek Parfit and Roger Crisp.  While working on my doctorate, I was a Visiting Lecturer at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and at the University of Reading in Reading, UK.

Books:
* Morality and Motivation, Continuum (Author, 2012)
* "On Liberty" and Other Essays by John Stuart Mill, Broadview (Editor, 2012)
* Mill on Justice, Palgrave Macmillan (Editor, 2012)

Papers:
* "Rule Consequentialism and Scope" in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
* "Legal Theory, Law, and Normativity" in The Journal of Moral Philosophy
* "Rule Consequentialism and Disaster" in Philosophical Studies
* "Moral Blameworthiness and the Reactive Attitudes," in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
* "Conflict, Regret, and Modern Moral Philosophy," in New Waves in Ethics (ed. Thom Brooks, Palgrave)
* "The Objection from Justice and the Conceptual/Substantive Distinction" in Mill on Justice (ed. Leonard Kahn, Palgrave)

Recent Presentations:
* "Rule Consequentialism and Scope"
@ The British Society for Ethical Theory, July 2011
@ The Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, July 2011

* "Rule Consequentialism and Disaster"
@ Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 2011

* "The Long and Winding Road from Autonomy to Informed Consent”
@ The Hastings Center for Bioethics, Garrison, NY, 8/10

* “Putting Autonomy in its Place”
@ The Hastings Center for Bioethics, Garrison, NY, 7/10

* "The Valence of Aesthetic Reasons,"
@ Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 2010

* "Conflict, Regret, and Modern Moral Philosophy,"
@ Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, February 2010
@ The Joint Session of the North Carolina Philosophy Society and the South Carolina Society for Philosophy, February 2010
@ The Midsouth Philosophy Conference, March 2010

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