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I am currently an Assistant Professor / Faculty Fellow at NYU’s Center for Bioethics. Starting Fall 2026, I will join the Department of Philosophy at Binghamton University as an Assistant Professor. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University’s Center for Human Values with the Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion. Prior to that, I received my Ph.D. in Philosophy from Stanford University.
I teach in all areas of value theory (ethics and its subfields such as bioethics and tech ethics, along with philosophy of law, social philosophy, aesthetics, and so on); I write primarily in ethics and moral psychology. In grad school I was struck by the idea that there is a thoroughgoing, fundamental dualism in ethics of being for what matters and bringing about what matters--roughly, of motives, on the one hand, and outcomes, on the other. This led me to focus on motives as vital for both ethical theory and agency. I sometimes like to say that motives lay the foundation for the heart.
Currently, I am writing various papers on love because it is such a powerful source of motivation, one where psychological limitations and ethical requirements intersect in interesting ways. My work on love overlaps with a second project of mine to understand the grounds for more compassionate ways of being oriented toward others. I think it can be fitting to show attention, grace, and love even when these might not be deserved.
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