Publications

Books

• The Magic Kingdom and the Meaning of Life (under contract with Polity Press).

• The Ethics of Sports Fandom (Routledge, 2022).

Book Chapters

• "The Professor as Fan," forthcoming in College Sports Ethics, edited by Chad Carlson and Shawn Klein (Lexington Books).

• "Appreciating the Not-Obviously-Beautiful Game," The Aesthetics, Poetics, and Rhetoric of Soccer, edited by Ridvan Askin, Aline Bieri, and Catherine Diederich (Routledge, 2018): 44-61.  

• “Contemplating the Start of Someone,” The Oxford Handbook of Reproductive Ethics, edited by Leslie Pickering Francis (Oxford University Press, 2017): 551-70.

Journal Articles

• "Fostering Hope in the Face of Death," Clinical Ethics 15 (2020): 167-174.

• "The Challenge of Authenticity: Enhancement and Accurate Self-Presentation," Journal of Applied Philosophy 35 (2018): 790-808.

• "Hope(s) and Hopefulness," American Philosophical Quarterly 54 (2017): 209-222.

• "Does it Matter Whether We Do Wrong?" Philosophical Studies 172 (2015): 2279-2298.

• "The Virtue of Hope," Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 18 (2015): 337-354.

• "Flouting the Demands of Justice?: Physician Participation in Executions," The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 39 (2014): 505-22.

• "Sincerity, Solidarity, and Deliberative Commitment," The Southern Journal of Philosophy 52 (2014): 139-162.

• "Empiricism and Moral Status," Social Theory and Practice 39 (2013): 397-421.

• "Irreplaceability and Identity," Social Theory and Practice 38 (2012): 33-54.

• "The Importance of Arguing as We Believe," Public Affairs Quarterly 25 (2011): 63-80.

• "Humanizing Personhood," Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 13 (2010): 421-37.

• "What's So Bad About Politicizing?" Public Affairs Quarterly 23 (2009): 227-44.

• "Acceptance, Belief, and Descartes's Provisional Morality," Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 10 (2007): 35-52.

Essays, Commentaries, and Reviews

• "In Defense of Princess Culture," The Raven: A Magazine of Philosophy (Spring 2022).

• "Hope at a Crossroads," How We Know What We Know: Humanities Responds to the Pandemic (2020): 68-71.

• Review of Stephen Mumford, Football: The Philosophy Behind the Game, Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 47 (2020): 146-150.

• "Appreciating Uncertainty and Personal Preference in Genetic Testing," Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics 5 (2015): 245-249.

• Review of Gary Varner, Personhood, Ethics, and Animal Cognition, The Journal of Moral Philosophy 12 (2015): 247-250.

• Review of Christian Smith, What is a Person?, The Journal of Moral Philosophy 10 (2013): 555-557.

• Review of Christine Korsgaard, The Constitution of Agency, The Philosophical Quarterly 60 (2010): 427-29.

• Review of David Schmidtz, Elements of Justice, The Hedgehog Review (vol. 9, no. 3, Fall 2007).