Research

PUBLICATIONS

• • “Will intelligent machines become moral patients?”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (Forthcoming). (PDF)
  • “The Function Argument for Ascribing Interests“, Synthese 203, 157 (2024). (PDF)
  • “Neo-Aristotelian Naturalism as Ethical Naturalism”, Journal of Moral Philosophy 19.4 (2022): 335-360. (PDF)
  • “Natural Goodness without Natural History”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 104.1 (2022): 78-100. (PDF)
  • “Is the Neo-Aristotelian Concept of Organism Presupposed in Biology?”, in Aristotelian Naturalism: A Research Companion, ed. Martin Hähnel, Springer, 2020, pp. 329-342.
  • “From Biological Functions to Natural Goodness”, Philosophers’ Imprint 19, 51 (2019). (PDF)
  • “Neo-Aristotelian Naturalism and the Evolutionary Objection: Rethinking the Relevance of Empirical Science”, in Philippa Foot on Goodness and Virtue, ed. John Hacker-Wright, Palgrave, 2018, 277-307. (PDF)
  • “On the Relevance of Evolutionary Biology to Ethical Naturalism”, in The Ethics of Nature and The Nature of Ethics, ed. Gary Keogh, Lexington Books, 2017, 37-50.

DISSERTATION

• • From Function to Flourishing: Neo-Aristotelian Ethics and the Science of Life. PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto, 2019. (PDF) 

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