In Brief

I am Associate Professor of Philosophy at Queen’s University (Canada). I received my D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 2012.

My research lies in normative ethics, practical ethics and political philosophy; much of it is where they overlap. Within ethics, my focus is on delineating the boundaries of permissible harm. This work began in the context of the morality of defensive violence; it now extends beyond it, in a few different directions. Within political philosophy, my focus is luck-egalitarian distributive justice. I am interested both in explicating the egalitarian conception of distributive fairness, and in unpacking the range of moral considerations, beyond fairness, that underpin the luck-egalitarian ideal.

You'll find samples of my published work under "Publications." For papers under review or in progress – on various topics – please e-mail me.

I am an associate editor of the Journal of Moral Philosophy and at Analysis. I am also an Ethics liaison (and occasional special post coordinator) at PEA Soup.

My home image is a photograph by Anastasia Samoylova. You can find more of her work here.

Contact

Department of Philosophy, John Watson Hall, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6

kg59@queensu.ca