I am a political philosopher working as a senior lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of York. Before starting at York, I took a PhD from the UCL Department of Philosophy and then held a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at Cambridge.
Recently, my main research focus has been on a joint project with Alasia Nuti. In this project, we draw on and develop elements of John Rawls’s framework of political liberalism to illuminate how liberal democratic societies can fight illiberal and antidemocratic views without themselves contradicting any core liberal democratic commitments. On top of several articles published over the ye…
I am a political philosopher working as a senior lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of York. Before starting at York, I took a PhD from the UCL Department of Philosophy and then held a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at Cambridge.
Recently, my main research focus has been on a joint project with Alasia Nuti. In this project, we draw on and develop elements of John Rawls’s framework of political liberalism to illuminate how liberal democratic societies can fight illiberal and antidemocratic views without themselves contradicting any core liberal democratic commitments. On top of several articles published over the years, our book on these topics came out for OUP in the summer of 2024.
My interest in political liberalism and the cognate notion of of public reason extends beyond issues of liberal democratic self-defence. Starting with my PhD dissertation, I have applied public reason liberalism to a range of issues in the political philosophy of public policy, with special attention to health care resource allocation policy. In this research area, I am particularly interested in the role that bureaucrats and scientific advisors should play in their society's process of public reasoning.
