Research Overview

My research focuses on what is ordinarily called distributive justice, which I think of as the intersection between political philosophy, philosophy of law, and—given my own interests—bioethics. I am currently working on a book-length project that explores the tension between global justice and sovereignty, and aims to argue that what I call the 'market perspective' of justice (i.e., the view that essential goods are informed by the global market) requires us to understand the moral limits of international cooperation with respect to how soverign states can each autonomously realize the aims of justice. I call this view moderate statism, and hope to employ it—among other places—in debates about global health equity to defend compulsory licensing mechanisms without appealing to specific global-level principles about healthcare distribution, instead appealing to sovereignty as a normative capacity to realize the aims of (health) justice.

Publications

"Healthcare Justice: Protecting Self-Respect, Not Opportunity."
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 22, no. 4 (2025): early online. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-025-10432-9.

"Budget Cuts to Narcan Programs Dangerously Misunderstand Public Health Aims."
Health Affairs Forefront (2025): online print. https://doi.org/10.1377/forefront.20250709.312782.

Public Engagement (Selected)

APA Member Interview: Radheesh Ameresekere.
Blog of the APA (2024): online print.

Papers in Progress

A paper on vulnerability in research populations (under review).
A paper on compulsory licensing (ms. in preparation).
A paper on health law (ms. in preparation).
A paper on relational egalitarianism in Kant (ms. in preparation).

Selected Talks (* = invited)

Philosophy and Biomanufacturing (Panel)
- Ethics Bowl Canada, Université de Montréal, June 2025

A Kantian Conception of Relational Equality.
- Kant’s Moral Philosophy—Beyond the Strawman, Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald, May 2025

Rethinking Self-Respect and its Bases
- McGill University, November 2024

What We Owe to Non-Rational Agents
- (with Lawrence Chyall) Foundations of Bioethics FLG, Harvard Medical School, October 2024 (*)

Healthcare Justice: Protecting Self-Respect, Not Opportunity
- Justice, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Past, Present, and Future, April 2025
- Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) Conference, October 2024

Art and Reason
- Annual Falsafa Symposium, University of California Irvine, February 2022 (*)