I am an ethicist interested in many areas of moral philosophy and in the free will debate. In applied ethics I have focused on issues relating to enhancement, cheating, mental illness, and punishment. Besides these applied ethical issues, but related to them, I have also spent a quite a bit of time thinking about the concept of moral obligation and the ought-implies-can principle. Additionally, I have an ongoing research program within the free will debate where I focus on the moral ramifications of hard incompatibilism. I take a Strawsonian approach to the reactive attitudes and argue that we would lose quite a bit if it turned out that we d…

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