• Lawrence University
    Department of Philosophy
    Postdoctoral Fellow of Philosophy and Uihlein Fellow of Ethics
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2018
Appleton, Wisconsin, United States of America
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    Reasons, Dispositions, and Value
    Philosophers' Imprint 17. 2017.
    In this paper, I will discuss an objection to Buck-Passing accounts of value, such as Reasons Fundamentalism. Buck-Passing views take value to be derivative of or reducible to reasons. The objection is that since there can be value in possible worlds in which there are no reasons, value must not be ontologically derivative of reasons. Thus, BP is false. In this paper, I show that by accepting a dispositionalist revision, BP can allow such worlds while maintaining that reasons are interestingly p…Read more
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    Can Moral Principles Explain Supervenience?
    Res Philosophica 91 (4): 629-659. 2014.
    The distribution of moral properties supervenes on the distribution of natural properties, and this provides a puzzle for non-naturalism: what could explain supervenience if moral properties are not natural properties? Enoch claims moral principles explain supervenience. But this solution is incomplete without an account of what moral principles and properties are, and what relation holds between them. This paper begins to develop such an account by exploring analogous issues for Realism about L…Read more