Welcome! I am currently a full time Visiting Philosophy Instructor at Northeastern and a part-time philosophy instructor at Bridgewater State University where I teach a variety of ethics and logic courses. In February 2019, my Ph.D. was conferred. My doctoral thesis was titled "Assessing the Moral Evaluations of Pharmacological Enhancements" and was supervised by Dr. Walter Glannon. I focused on one central ethical question: when is it morally permissible, impermissible, or obligatory to pharmacologically enhance oneself to accomplish a goal? I developed a novel strategy to answer this question guided by an appeal to virtue, practice, and achievement, and concluded that such enhancements are not only permissible in many contexts but may be obligatory in far more cases than has been previously suggested. I also have interests in many other areas of moral philosophy including the reactive attitudes, moral obligation, agency, feminism, moral responsibility, and the moral emotions. Lastly, I have an ongoing research program within the free will debate where I focus on the moral ramifications of hard incompatibilism. Roughly, I argue that we would lose quite a bit if it turned out that we do not have free will.
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