My main research areas include moral psychology and virtue ethics, both in contemporary discussions and in the history of ancient philosophy.

Within those areas, I focus on the nature of moral emotions, how those affect our relationships with others, and their connection to social virtue, with my research being driven by questions like when we should blame or forgive, what virtues we ought to develop in social relationships, how moral emotions should affect the demands of intimate relationships, and what is the role of attitudes like contempt in our moral life. A second set of research questions relate to the nature of moral development, par…

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