My historical research has focused on the ethics, metaphysics, and metaphilosophy of the classical American Pragmatists, as well as their intellectual connection to post-Kantian idealists in America and Europe.
Journal Articles
The Role of Temperaments in Philosophical Inquiry: A Pragmatic Approach (2023) Journal of the History of Philosophy, 61(2): 297-323. Published version here. Author's PDF here (please cite published version).
Practical Grounds for Belief: Kant and James on Religion (2018) European Journal of Philosophy, 26(4): 1269-1282. Co-authored with Joe Saunders Published version here. Author's PDFhere (please cite published version)
Kidnapping an Ugly Child: Is William James a Pragmaticist? (2017) British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 26(1): 154-175. Published version here. Author's PDF here (please cite published version)
Absolutism, Relativism, and Anarchy: Alain Locke and William James on Value Pluralism (2017) Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 53(3): 400-424 Published version here. Author's PDF here(please cite published version)
Chapters in Edited Collections
The Affective Preconditions of Inquiry: Hookway on Doubt, Altruism and Self-confidence (2023) Pragmatic Reason: Christopher Hookway and the American Tradition, Robert Talisse et al (eds.), London: Routledge, 162-181. Book available here.Author's PDF here (please cite published version)
Freedom and Experience in Kant and James (2023) Freedom After Kant, Joe Saunders (ed.), London and New York: Bloomsbury, Chapter 10. Co-authored with Joe Saunders. Book available here. Please email me for Author's PDF.
Radical Empiricism, British Idealism, and the Reality of Relations (2021) The Jamesian Mind, Sarin Marchetti (ed.), London: Routledge, 398-411 Published version here. Author's PDF here (please cite published version)
James and Hegel: Looking for a Home (2019) The Oxford Handbook of William James, Alex Klein (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press Co-authored with Robert Stern Online version here. Author's PDF here(please cite published version)
Environmental Philosophy
My engaged research applies a pragmatist framework to environmental philosophy. In my current projects, I am working with colleagues from across different disciplines to explore the rights of nature.
The "No Interest" Argument Against the Rights of Nature (Currently under review) Pre-print version removed for peer-review (please email me for current version)
The Moral Grounding of the Legal Rights of Nature (Currently under review) Pre-print version removed for peer-review (please email me for current version)