Research. I’m interested in the prospect of understanding morality, and in particular that part of it concerning itself with ‘what we owe to each other’, in fundamentally relational terms. Among other things, the relational understanding of morality is particularly well suited to properly accommodate the attitudinal dimension of interpersonal morality and its associated phenomena, including recognition respect, blame, apology, and forgiveness. I’m currently engaged in a project on developing and defending a bipolar account of morality. This project ‘Recognizing You - The Relational Nature of Morality - is funded by the DFG.

You can find out more about my dissertation research on these topics here.

I also have interests in political philosophy and the philosophy of law.

Publications

‘Third-Party Indignation as Acting on Behalf of Another’, Philosophical Quarterly (forthcoming).

‘Accountability in the Moral Nexus’, Erkenntnis (forthcoming).

‘Moral Indifference’, Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics 13 (2023), co-authored with Monika Betzler.

‘Moral Friends? The Idea of the Moral Relationship’, European Journal of Philosophy 31 (4) (2023).

‘Acting on Behalf of Another’, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 52 (5) (2022), co-authored with Alexander Edlich.

'Bipolar Obligations, Recognition Respect, and Second-Personal Morality', Journal of Ethics 23 (3) (2019).

Review of R. Jay Wallace’s ‘The Moral Nexus’ (PUP 2019), Journal of Moral Philosophy 18 (1) (2021).

Working Papers.

A paper on personal relationships and second-personal ethics (for the Oxford Handbook on Personal Relationships)

A paper on relational morality and the all things considered ought.

A paper on relational obligation.

A paper on apology, moral growth, and human fallibility.