Before joining St John's in October 2023, I was a Departmental Lecturer in the Faculty of Philosophy and Hertford College. I received my PhD from Rutgers University in May 2023.
I'm interested in how we can create genuinely new aspects of reality, with an eye toward implications for value and death. I’m developing a subjectivist account of wellbeing that treats personal value as a genuinely real artefact, where this allows us to create value for ourselves that persists posthumously. I aim to eventually expand this artifactual approach to an account of self-regarding and other-regarding reasons. As a framework for this conception of normativity, I am developing a metaphysics of dependence and properties that can capture how we can create both concrete and abstract artefacts, including normative ones.
I teach in many areas of philosophy, including metaethics, metaphysics, ethics, social philosophy, logic, and early modern.
