Research

Publications

• "Love and Evaluative Conflict," European Journal of Philosophy, 32 (2024): 145–158 (PDF)

Works in Progress

• "Grief Rekindles"

• A paper on Proust, art, and grief

• A paper on the ethics of seduction

• A paper on the rationality of passion

• A paper on Nietzsche as a critic of regret

• A paper on the philosophical novel as a literary genre

Recent and Upcoming Presentations

• 2025 "The Aesthetic Role of Grief in Proust's In Search of Lost Time," Panel for the American Society of Aesthetics, American Philosophical Association (Central Division), Virtual

• 2025 "Fits of Passion," American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division), Poster, New York, NY

• 2024 "Fits of Passion," European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions, University of Lisbon/NOVA University Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

• 2024 “Grief Rekindles,” American Philosophical Association (Central Division), New Orleans, LA

• 2023 Comments on Gregory Currie’s “Tragedy, Deception, and Irony,” American Society for Aesthetics, Arlington, VA

• 2023 "Grief Rekindles," European-American Online Workshop in Philosophy of Emotions, Virtual

• 2023 “Love and Evaluative Conflict,” American Philosophical Association (Central Division), Denver, CO

• 2022 “The Intermittent Heart: Proust and the Temporality of the Emotions,” In Celebration of Marcel Proust: A Workshop, Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

• 2021 “A Prioritarian Approach to Cultural Inequality in Higher Education,” UNC Charlotte Ethics and Applied Philosophy Graduate Conference, Virtual

• 2020 “Seduction and the Subversion of Agency,” Columbia/NYU Philosophy Graduate Conference, New York, NY (Canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic)

• 2020 “Seduction and the Subversion of Agency,” Graduate Philosophy Association Conference on Philosophy of Sex and Love, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

• 2019 “Dismantling Foot’s Master Analogy,” The Legacy of Wittgenstein, Anscombe, and Their Oxbridge Contemporaries, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

• 2017 Comments on Matthew Congdon’s “What Is It to Address Someone: Wittgenstein and the Second-Person Standpoint,” Wittgenstein Workshop, The New School, New York, NY