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254Exploring Arbitrariness Objections to Time-BiasesJournal of the American Philosophical Association. forthcoming.There are two kinds of time-bias: near-bias and future-bias. While philosophers typically hold that near-bias is rationally impermissible, many hold that future-bias is rationally permissible. Call this normative hybridism. According to arbitrariness objections, certain patterns of preference are rationally impermissible because they are arbitrary. While arbitrariness objections have been levelled against both near-bias and future-bias, the kind of arbitrariness in question has been different. I…Read more
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21Immoral Artistry?Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 27 (1). 2024.This paper uses detailed art criticism to ground a distinctive take on debates about the interaction of moral and aesthetic value. Immoralists claim that moral flaws can make artworks aesthetically better than they would otherwise be. I argue that whether or not immoralism is true, immoralists have not provided compelling characterizations of strategies that might constitute this kind of “immoral artistry.” The main exception is found in the work of A. W. Eaton. I critique Eaton’s perspective by…Read more
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11Group Ownership, Group Interests, and the Ethics of Cultural ExchangeThe Journal of Ethics 28 (2): 309-329. 2024.In this essay, we address an important problem in the ethics of cultural engagement: the problem of giving a systematic account of when and why outsider use of insider cultural material is permissible or impermissible. We argue that many scholars rely on a problematic notion of collective ownership even when they claim to be disavowing it. After making this case, we motivate an alternative framework for thinking about cultural exchange, which we call the core interests framework. We conclude wit…Read more
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29Review of Amia Srinivasan: The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century (review)Ethics 134 (2): 320-326. 2023.
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45Parental Love and ProcreationPhilosophical Quarterly 73 (1): 206-226. 2022.The main goal of this paper is to explore the forcefulness of the adoption challenge to procreative parenting. After framing the challenge, I consider two of the most developed attempts to respond to it, due to Luara Ferracioli and Elizabeth Brake. I argue that neither strategy is a promising way to vindicate the permissibility of procreative parenting. I then present several reasons to value procreative parenting that are underappreciated in the recent literature. Though these considerations de…Read more
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25Just Words? Hate Speech, Harm, and the Justifiability of Legal RegulationAustralasian Philosophical Review 5 (2): 117-128. 2021.Questions concerning what hate speech is, how it harms, whether it is protected by free speech principles, and how it might be legally regulated have been at the centre of debates about free speech...
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23Female Freedom and The Neapolitan NovelsHypatia 37 (1): 111-135. 2022.Part 1 of this essay began to develop a philosophical interpretation of The Neapolitan Novels by grounding a vision of the work's moral psychology in the tradition of Italian difference feminism, particularly as it is expressed in the texts of the influential Milan Women's Bookstore Collective. Part 2 advances the interpretive argument by presenting a more detailed literary analysis of the character of Lila Cerullo. After motivating the interest of various aspects of her symbolization by connect…Read more
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37Female Freedom and The Neapolitan NovelsHypatia 36 (4): 676-701. 2021.This essay begins to develop a philosophical interpretation of Elena Ferrante's L'amica geniale, a work of fiction that is known in English as The Neapolitan Novels. My ultimate aim is to explore the work's ambitious moral psychology, and particularly its subtle conceptualization of women's path to freedom. I begin by reconstructing some of the main ideas of Italian difference feminism as they are expressed in the texts of the Milan Women's Bookstore Collective—texts that are controversial miles…Read more
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89Akrasia and moral motivationEuropean Journal of Philosophy 30 (1): 411-426. 2022.Offers a distinctive take on the motivation problem by way of an analysis of akrasia and the nature of rationality
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98Against RomanticismErgo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 7. 2020.An analysis and critique of irrationalist and romanticising threads in thinking about love
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35ActionIn Edward N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Metaphysics Research Lab. 2014.
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127A Tripartite Theory of LoveJournal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 13 (2). 2018.Offers a conception of love and why it is meaningful
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182ActionStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.If a person's head moves, she may or may not have moved her head, and, if she did move it, she may have actively performed the movement of her head or merely, by doing something else, caused a passive movement. And, if she performed the movement, she might have done so intentionally or not. This short array of contrasts (and others like them) has motivated questions about the nature, variety, and identity of action. Beyond the matter of her moving, when the person moves her head, she may be indi…Read more
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135The Calendar ParadoxPhilosophical Studies 173 (3): 801-825. 2016.Presents an analogue of the Preface Paradox for intention, and discusses possible implications for the philosophy of action
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2Unraveling the Twists of Fight ClubIn Thomas E. Wartenberg (ed.), Fight Club, Routledge. 2011.Analyzes cinematic conventions of transparency, and offers an interpretation of Fight Club
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535Wide and narrow scopePhilosophical Studies 163 (3): 717-736. 2013.Offers a conciliatory solution to one of the central contemporary debates in the theory of rationality, the debate about the proper formulation of rational requirements. Introduces a novel conception of the “symmetry problem” for wide scope rational requirements, and sketches a theory of rational commitment as a response.
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526Moral and Rational CommitmentPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 88 (1): 146-172. 2012.Argues that the normative relation of commitment is routinely overlooked by philosophers, and that investigating it reveals some interesting similarities between the moral and rational domains.
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32The Men of Talk to HerFilm and Philosophy 17 96-112. 2013.Offers an interpretation of Pedro Almodovar's masterpiece, arguing that viewers often mistakenly ignore the obsessiveness of Marco - its seemingly more well-adjusted protagonist - and that an analysis of Marco's development is key to appreciating the film's construction.
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42Russ Shafer-Landau (review)Journal of Moral Philosophy 11 (1): 124-127. 2014.Review of Oxford Studies in Metaethics Vol. 6
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