Publications

Book

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).