I'm currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Philosophy at the Australian National University. My research addresses three central questions:

(1) How do good moral agents (learn to) determine what morality requires of them? To address this question, I’m developing a conception of good practical reason based on the skill model of virtue—the idea that moral virtue is like, or just is, a practical skill. This idea has been extensively developed in the eudaimonist tradition going back to Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics. I, however, critique the eudaimonist approach to the skill model and advance an alternative, deontological ac…

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