I work in political philosophy and bioethics. I've done a fair bit of writing about disability - what it is; how it relates to egalitarian justice, and to health. This also includes work on some practical, applied, issues, particularly around access to and rights in prostheses.

I'm mainly focused for now on questions about the body - what it means for something (a hand, a liver, a prosthetic limb) to be a part of the body; what follows, morally, when something is. I'm working on a theory according to which the answers to these questions are intimately related: on which our bodies, basically, are those things that matter morally in certain sp…

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