How (domestic and global) societies arrange themselves will result in vastly different distributions of benefits and burdens across people. My project aims to evaluate whether a particular social arrangement and the principles which govern it are morally preferable, and give philosophical arguments for those arrangements.  This is what is ordinarily called distributive justice. There are different ways to think about what it means for a society to be arranged in a 'morally preferable' way, but I often find myself thinking about this in terms of fairness. Part of the project is therefore understanding what fairness is. Borrowing a phrase from Rawls, fairness "is a moral conception worked out for a specific kind of subject, namely, for political, social, and economic institutions". As such, fairness is intertwined with substantive moral considerations like desert, equality, freedom, respect, and value. 

AOS Political Philosophy, Normative Ethics (incl. Bioethics)
AOC Applied Ethics, Normative Economics, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Religion

Articles

"Vaccine Ethics: Mandatory Vaccine Programs and Individual Liberty."
(with Michelle Huang) Duke Medical Ethics Journal 4 (2021): online print.

"The Pen and the Sword: Comparing Kantian and Marxist Views on Social Progress."
POLIS 8 (2021): 28-33.

Public Philosophy 

"Kant, Law, & War: In Conversation with Arthur Ripstein."
Noesis 23, no. 1 (2022): 82-97.

Papers in Progress

A paper on deontic obligations to non-rational agents (in progress)
A paper on  global inequalities  (in progress)
A paper on healthcare justice (R&R in Journal of Bioethical Inquiry)

Selected Talks (* = invited)

'What Kantian's Owe to Non-Rational Agents'
- (with Lawrence Chyall) Foundations of Bioethics FLG, Harvard Medical School, September 2024 (*)

'Healthcare Justice: Protecting Self-Respect, Not Opportunity'
- Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) Conference, October 2024
- MANCEPT Workshop in Political Theory on Disability and Justice, University of Manchester, September 2024 [insufficient funding to attend]

'Towards a Perfectionist Account of Human Rights'
- Ethics & Progress, University of Toronto Centre for Ethics, June 2022

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