Welcome
I am currently a postdoctoral fellow in Law and Philosophy, School of Law and Department of Philosophy, at UCLA. As of September 2018, I'll be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University at Albany (SUNY).
My research interests are in ethics (meta-ethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics), political philosophy, philosophy of law, and their history. Generally, I am interested in exploring the nature of directed norms, that is, those claims I have against you and the correlative duties you owe me, and in showing how taking directed norms as basic can help us to understand better the general nature of moral, legal, and political norms. My recent research begins with a relational account moral, legal, and human rights and extrapolates the insights of that inquiry to an account of basic moral concepts, such as human dignity, freedom, respect, public law, and global justice. My current research develops an irreducibly relational account of the foundations of moral norms.
Prior to joining UCLA, in 2015-2016 I was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University. And in 2013-2015 I was a SSHRC postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Philosophy, McGill University. I completed a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Toronto in 2013.
I am currently a postdoctoral fellow in Law and Philosophy, School of Law and Department of Philosophy, at UCLA. As of September 2018, I'll be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University at Albany (SUNY).
My research interests are in ethics (meta-ethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics), political philosophy, philosophy of law, and their history. Generally, I am interested in exploring the nature of directed norms, that is, those claims I have against you and the correlative duties you owe me, and in showing how taking directed norms as basic can help us to understand better the general nature of moral, legal, and political norms. My recent research begins with a relational account moral, legal, and human rights and extrapolates the insights of that inquiry to an account of basic moral concepts, such as human dignity, freedom, respect, public law, and global justice. My current research develops an irreducibly relational account of the foundations of moral norms.
Prior to joining UCLA, in 2015-2016 I was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University. And in 2013-2015 I was a SSHRC postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Philosophy, McGill University. I completed a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Toronto in 2013.