Publications

Journal Articles

“Blaming Yourself for Wronging Yourself,” Analysis (forthcoming)

“The Curious Case of Secondary Permissibility,” Ergo (forthcoming)

“How (and How Not) to Defend Lesser-Evil Options,” The Journal of Moral Philosophy (published online ahead of print 2022).

“Lesser-Evil Justifications: A Reply to Frowe,” (with Theron Pummer) Law and Philosophy (published online ahead of print 2022).

“Should Contractualists Decompose?“ Philosophy and Public Affairs, 47 (3) (2019): 259-287

“Not as a Means: Killing as a Side Effect in Self-Defense,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 100 (4) (2019): 1074-1090

“What Makes a Person Liable to Defensive Harm?” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 97 (3) (2018): 543-567.

"Comparative Desert Vs. Fairness," Law and Philosophy, 36 (4) (2017): 367–387.

“Self-Defense Against Multiple Threats,” Journal of Moral Philosophy, 14 (2) (2017): 125-133.  (Featured on Pea Soup, July 21-23, 2017.)

“Why More Choice is Sometimes Worse than Less,” Law and Philosophy, 36 (1) (2017): 25-44. (Link is read only; the downloadable version is here.)

“Luck, Love, and Extreme Skiing: Distributive Injustice without Unfairness,” Moral Philosophy and Politics 3 (1) (2016): 119-133

“Can Comparative Desert Do without Equality?” Philosophical Papers 44 (2) (2015): 189-205

“Whom Should We Enhance? The Problem of Altering Potential,” Journal of Moral Philosophy 12 (6) (2015): 731-753

Book Chapters

“The Doing and Allowing Distinction,” (with Christian Barry). In David Copp, Connie Rosati and Tina Ruli eds. The Oxford Handbook to Normative Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026)

Nonacademic Publications

“As a professor, I’m pressured to give out high grades like candy - and not just by students,” Toronto Star, May 15, 2026

“Upset that Mark Carney’s been courting Conservative defectors? That’s not a Liberal problem — it’s a you problem,” Toronto Star, April 19, 2026

“You wouldn’t ask a psychopath for advice. Why on earth would you ask ChatGPT?” Toronto Star, March 29, 2026

“Don’t Trash the Humanities,” Big iff True, January 20, 2026. (If you first encountered me in the Toronto Star and are looking to read one more thing, make it this one.)