My Ph.D. is from the University of Texas.  Prior to this, I studied at King’s College London and at the University of York.

I specialize in ethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of action.  Within these areas, my main research focuses on free will, moral responsibility, and the nature of action and agency more generally.

Book

• Libertarian Free Will: Contemporary Debates (editor) (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).

Journal Articles

• “Achievements, free will, and meaning in life” (with Ning Fan), forthcoming in Synthese.
• “Must choices and decisions be uncaused by prior events or states of the agent?” forthcoming in Erkenntnis.
• “Hume on the temporal priority of cause over effect,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 53 (2023): 81-94.
• “Free will and control: a noncausal approach,” Synthese, 198 (2021): 10043-10062.
• “Moral responsibility for actions and omissions: the asymmetry thesis rejected” (with Yuanyuan Liu), Erkenntnis, 86 (2021): 1225-1237.
• “Omissions: the constitution view defended,” Erkenntnis, 85 (2020): 793-756.
• “Goetz on the noncausal libertarian view of free will,” Thought, 5 (2016): 99-107.
• “Deterministic Frankfurt cases,” Synthese, 191 (2014): 3847-3864.
• “The timing objection to the Frankfurt cases,” Erkenntnis, 78 (2013): 1011-1023.
• “Capes on the W-defense,” Philosophia, 41 (2013): 555-566.
• “The ethics of marketing to vulnerable populations,” (with Trevor Hedberg), Journal of Business Ethics, 116 (2013): 403-413.
• “Pereboom on the Frankfurt cases,” Philosophical Studies, 153 (2011): 261-272.
• “On Mele and Robb’s indeterministic Frankfurt-style case,” (with Carl Ginet), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 80 (2010): 440-446.
• “New distinctions, same troubles: a reply to Haji and McKenna,” Journal of Philosophy, 102 (2005): 474-482.

Book Chapters

• “Non-causal libertarianism,” forthcoming in How Free Are We? eds. Taylor Cyr and Matthew Flummer (New York: Oxford University Press).
• “Is the unexamined life worth living?” in Philosophers in the Classroom, eds. Steven Cahn, Alexandra Bradner, and Andrew Mills (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2018): 123-131.
• “Free will, libertarianism, and Kane,” in Libertarian Free Will, ed. David Palmer (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014): 3-11.
• “Event-causal libertarianism: two objections reconsidered,” in Free Will and Moral Responsibility, eds. Ishtiyaque Haji and Justin Caouette (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013): 98-122.

Book Reviews

• Review of Robert Kane, The Complex Tapestry of Free Will, forthcoming in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
• Review of Bernard Berofsky, Nature’s Challenge to Free Will, Mind, 123 (2014): 1171-1174.
• Review of Richard Swinburne, Mind, Brain, and Free Will, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2013).