I'm a fourth-year PhD student in philosophy at the Australian National University and have MAs in philosophy from Victoria University of Wellington and Washington University in St. Louis. I go by the name "Nicky," and my Māori friends and family call me "Nīkora." I specialize in wellbeing, public policy, disability, and ethics, and have published on moral bioenhancement, Mill's metaethics, utilitarianism, and metaethics and love.

I recently submitted my dissertation, which is about the theory and practice of government approaches to promoting wellbeing and using the tools of conceptual engineering to develop accounts of wellbeing and disabi…

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