I am a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Calgary (ABD). I am an ethicist interested in many areas of moral philosophy including but not limited to moral obligation, enhancement, punishment, moral responsibility and the moral emotions. I also 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.

Currently, I am working on my dissertation (under the supervision of Prof. Walter Glannon) where I focus on enhancement. The central question guiding my research is this: when is it permissible to utilize an enhancement to accomplish a goal? To answer this question I focus on the wrong-making features others have appealed to and explain why they often miss the mark. To help elucidate how and when the use of enhancement technology should affect our moral evaluations I analyze the concept of achievement and show how a focus on this concept can help us morally evaluate cases of enhancement. I defend this project in early August of 2017.

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