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.
Journal Articles
The "No Interest" Argument Against the Rights of Nature (forthcoming) Philosophers' Imprint Author's version here. Published version here.
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)
Books
Connecting With Nature: Ideas from Environmental Philosophy Edited Collection (Under Development with CUP and Royal Institute of Philosophy)