My primary areas of research are Early Modern Philosophy and Ethics. My approach to working on these topics is broadly contextualist. I have a particular passion for writing on underrepresented figures in the early modern tradition.
When I'm not lost in the 17th and 18th centuries, I am reading widely in contemporary moral psychology and political philosophy. I have recently waded into debates about reasons, love, and the self-directed emotions. I hope to do some work on these issues in the not too distant future. That said, my current project is a series of articles on figures in the British Moralist tradition (Hume, Smith, Cockburn, Masham…
My primary areas of research are Early Modern Philosophy and Ethics. My approach to working on these topics is broadly contextualist. I have a particular passion for writing on underrepresented figures in the early modern tradition.
When I'm not lost in the 17th and 18th centuries, I am reading widely in contemporary moral psychology and political philosophy. I have recently waded into debates about reasons, love, and the self-directed emotions. I hope to do some work on these issues in the not too distant future. That said, my current project is a series of articles on figures in the British Moralist tradition (Hume, Smith, Cockburn, Masham).
