Employment

University of Tampa

Associate Professor of Philosophy (tenured) - March 2018-present.

Department Chair - June 2018-present.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure-track) - 2015-18.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy (non-tenure-track) - 2009-15.

University of British Columbia

Assistant Professor without Review (non-tenure-track) - 2008-9.

Education

University of Arizona - PhD in Philosophy, Cognitive Science Minor, December 2008.

- Dissertation: "A Non-Ideal Theory of Justice."

- Committee: Thomas Christiano, Gerald Gaus, Michael Gill.

Syracuse University - PhD program, 1999-2001.

Tufts University - B.A. in Philosophy and Psychology/Clinical, Magna Cum Laude, 1998.

Books

(2020). Neurofunctional Prudence and Morality: A Philosophical Theory. Routledge.
(2016). Rightness as Fairness: A Moral and Political Theory. Palgrave Macmillan.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

Forthcoming. Jury Theorems for Peer-Review. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science [w/Remco Heesen & Liam Kofi Bright].
Forthcoming. Two New Doubts about Simulation Arguments. Australasian Journal of Philosophy [w/Micah Summers].
Forthcoming. Educational Justice and School Boosting. Social Theory and Practice.
Forthcoming. From Rational Self-Interest to Liberalism: A Hole in Cofnas’s Debunking Argument of Moral Progress. Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy.
2022. Panpsychism and A.I. Consciousness. Synthese [w/Corey J. Maley].
(2021). The Normative Stance. The Philosophical Forum.
(2019). Nonideal Justice as Nonideal Fairness. Journal of the American Philosophical Association.
(2019). The Dark Side of Morality: Group Polarization and Moral Epistemology. The Philosophical Forum.
(2018). Mental Time-Travel, Semantic Flexibility, and A.I. Ethics. A.I. & Society.
(2016). A Refutation of the Lewis-Stalnaker Analysis of Counterfactuals. Metaphysica.
(2015). How to Rationally Approach Life's Transformative Experiences. Philosophical Psychology.
(2014). First Steps Toward a Nonideal Theory of Justice. Ethics & Global Politics.
(2014). A Unified Explanation of Quantum Phenomena? The Case for the Peer-to-Peer Simulation Hypothesis as an Interdisciplinary Research Program. The Philosophical Forum.
(2014). Justice as Fairness in a Broken World. Philosophy and Public Issues.
(2014). Why Hobbes Cannot Limit the Leviathan: A Critical Commentary on Larry May's Limiting Leviathan. Hobbes Studies.
(2014). A Better, Dual Theory of Human Rights. The Philosophical Forum.
(2013). Groundwork for a New Moral Epistemology. Klesis.
(2013). A New Theory of Free Will. The Philosophical Forum.
(2013). A Lot More Bad News for Conservatives, and a Little Bit of Bad News for Liberals? A Follow-up Study. Neuroethics.
(2013). Bad News for Conservatives? Moral Judgments and the Dark Triad Personality Traits: A Correlational Study. Neuroethics.
(2012). Unifying the Categorical Imperative. Southwest Philosophy Review.
(2012). Reconceptualizing Human Rights. Journal of Global Ethics.
(2011). People Do Not Have a Duty to Avoid Voting Badly: Reply to Brennan. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy.
(2009). In Defense of Discretionary Association Theories of Political Legitimacy: Reply to Buchanan. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy.

Publications in Edited Collections

(2021). The Original Position. In Philosophy Illustrated: 40 thought experiments to broaden your mind. Helen De Cruz (ed.), Oxford University Press.
(2021). Morality as an Evolutionary Exaptation. In J. De Smedt & H. De Cruz & (eds.), Empirically Engaged Evolutionary Ethics, Springer – Synthese Library.
(2018). Humans and Hosts: What's the Difference?, in Westworld and Philosophy, Wiley-Blackwell, Chapter extract featured at beyondwestworld.com.
(2017). The Rationality of Voting and Duties of Elected Officials. In Ethics in Politics: The Rights and Obligations of Individual Political Agents (Routledge).

Encyclopedia Entries

(2020). Transformative Experiences. International Encyclopedia of Ethics.

Invited Publications

(2013). Nonideal Justice and a Decent Health Care Minimum. APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine.

Publications in Popular Press

(2015). "The Peer-to-Peer Simulation Hypothesis and a New Theory of Free Will", Scientia Salon.

Book Reviews

(2020). Assessing empirically based ethics: James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky: Science and the good: the tragic quest for the foundations of morality. New Haven: Templeton Press and Yale University Press. Metascience.
(2019). Mark Silcox, A Defense of Simulated Experience: New Noble Lies, Routledge. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
(2019). T.M. Scanlon, Why Does Inequality Matter?, Oxford: OUP. Australasian Journal of Philosophy [Book Note].
(2019). Michael Goodhart, Injustice: Political Theory for the Real World, Oxford: OUP. Political Theory.
(2019). Reflections on a Future of Sex With Robots (Review of J. Danaher & N. McArthur [eds.], Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications, Cambridge: MIT Press), Metascience.
(2018). James Griffin, What Can Philosophy Contribute to Ethics?, Oxford: OUP. Journal of Moral Philosophy.
(2017). Experimental Philosophy and the Fate of the Philosopher’s Armchair. review of Jennifer Nado [ed.], Advances in Experimental Philosophy and Philosophical Methodology (Bloomsbury), Metascience.
(2016). Review of L.A. Paul, Transformative Experience (OUP). Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
(2014). Review of C.A.J. Coady, Messy Morality: The Challenge of Politics (OUP). Mind.
(2012). Review of Michael Freeman, Human Rights, 2nd Edition. Teaching Philosophy.

Awards and Other Distinctions

2021-22. Research Innovation and Scholarly Excellence (RISE) Award, Faculty Grant, University of Tampa (project title: ‘Prudence, Morality, and Justice: A Unified Theory of Business Ethics’).

2017. Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Arts & Letters, University of Tampa.

2015. Co-winner, Joseph Ellin Memorial Prize for Best Paper, 9th Annual Meeting of the Lighthearted Philosophers’ Association.

2014. Charm Quark Winner (third-place), 3 Quarks Daily Philosophy Blogging Award (judged by Huw Price).

2012. Selected Participant, NEH Summer Seminar, "Liberty, Equality, and Justice: Philosophical Problems in Domestic and Global Contexts", Washington University in St. Louis.

2010. Selected Participant, Yale Experiment Month Initiative - sponsored by the APA, coordinated by Yale Cognitive Science.