Publications

On Political Liberalism

"Civic Friendship, Public Reason" (Philosophy and Public Affairs 2019)
Submitted Version | Published Version

"Political Liberalism and Political Community" (Journal of Moral Philosophy, 2017, with Han van Wietmarschen).
​Submitted Version | Published Version

"Reasonableness, Intellectual Modesty, and Reciprocity in Political Justification" (Ethics​, 2012, with Han van Wietmarschen)

On Parenting and Procreation

"Do Parental Licensing Schemes Violate the Rights of Biological Parents?" (​Philosophy and Phenomenological Research​, 2017, with Christian Barry)
Published Version

"Childhood Bads, Parenting Goods, and the Right to Procreate" (Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2018, with Sarah Hannan)
Submitted Version | Published Version

Other Topics

"Exploiting Disadvantage as Causing Harm" (Ethics and Global Politics, 2019, with Siba Harb) 

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In Progress

Papers on:

• Discrimination in sex and romance
• What makes discrimination distinctively wrongful
• Autonomy-based constraints on the enculturation of children.

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Dissertation

Justifying Political Liberalism, Stanford University 2014
[Abstract]

• I articulate an ideal of political community and use it to defend the “political liberalism” advocated by John Rawls, Charles Larmore, and many others. I show that political liberalism’s defining commitment, the principle of reciprocity in justification, is justified by the fact that compliance with the principle promotes an attractive and inclusive form of political community in pluralistic societies.