History of Philosophy

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.
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Journal Articles
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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). 

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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 PDF here (please cite published version)

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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)

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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)

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Chapters in Edited Collections
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​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)

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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. 

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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)

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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)

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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.
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Journal Articles
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The "No Interest" Argument Against the Rights of Nature
(forthcoming) Philosophers' Imprint
Author's version here. ​Published version here.

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Understanding the Rights of Nature: Working Together Across and Beyond Disciplines
(2023) Human Ecology, 51, 363-377
Co-authored with the Interdisciplinary Network for the Study of the Rights of Nature
Published version here.

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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)

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Books
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Connecting With Nature: Ideas from Environmental Philosophy
Edited Collection
(Under Development with CUP and Royal Institute of Philosophy)

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