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I’m a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Philosophy.

(Sadly, I am not an astronaut.)

Research interests

Primary

Moral and Political Philosophy

Other interests

Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science

Decision Theory

My research interests are primarily in moral and political philosophy. My previous publications have addressed topics including evolutionary debunking arguments in ethics, moral testimony and moral disagreement, the demands of beneficence, racial profiling and discrimination, health-care rationing, discounting in the context of climate policy, decision-making under deep uncertainty, and the moral significance of long-term impacts of present actions and policies.

Recent publications

Future generations and the evidential veil of ignorance” (with Johan Gustafsson) Economics and Philosophy, forthcoming

Welfare and felt duration,” Noûs 60, 563-575.

Desire-fulfilment and consciousness,” Philosophical Studies 183, 511-529.

‍“How to resist the Fading Qualia Argument,” Synthese 206, 252.

Would a world without us be worse? Clues from population axiology,” in Barrett, Greaves, and Thorstad, eds. Essays on Longtermism, 86-104(Oxford University Press).

Once more, without feeling,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 111, 343-365.

About me

I have been a Senior Research Fellow in the Oxford Philosophy Faculty since 2019. Before then, I worked at Oxford as a Tutorial Fellow at Jesus College. I was an Examination Fellow at All Souls College from 2010 to 2015.