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I have wide-ranging research interests. In my writing, I often focus on metanormative issues concerning norms, reasons, value, and virtue, across ethics, epistemology, and aesthetics. I am presently writing a book on the nature and value of aesthetic appreciation, with Joel Van Fossen (under contract with OUP, USA) and a book on the ethics of photography (under contract with OUP, UK), as well as writing papers on the nature of normative reasons, the nature of artistic rights, etc.
A number of my published papers are concerned with defending a particular theory concerning the nature of normative reasons (reasons to do things, believe things, feel things, and so on), but I have also published articles and book chapters on moral knowledge, virtue, ethical theory, moral skepticism, the history of moral metaphysics, photography and artistic luck, and feminism and Confucian ethics. My first book builds on my earlier work on reasons, but is broader in scope, as it is about the relationship of normative ethical theory to ordinary virtue. My interest in reasons and the nature of normativity led to the creation of an Oxford Handbook, while my interest in ethics in general led to me co-editing and co-authoring a textbook with commentary on the history of ethics (with Roger Crisp), as well as to my long-standing ethics seminar speaker series at Boston University. |
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