Articles
Chance and the dissipation of our acts effects
Australasian Journal of Philosophy 2021
Australasian Journal of Philosophy 2021
This paper discusses the extent of the effect that routine actions have on the future. It argues that given the possibility of non-deterministic effects, most actions do not have the power to radically alter the shape of the future.
Engage with animal welfare in conservation (with Nitin Sekar)
We argue that conservationist organizations should make institutional changes to better promote the welfare of individual animals.
Interactionism for the discerning mind?
This paper argues that interactionists face difficulties making sense of how minds could influence the right neurons in a brain to produce the range of behaviors of which we are capable.
This paper suggests that moral attitudes are distinguished from other attitudes by their functional properties in a restricted range of contexts and by the the resemblance of their ingredients in other contexts. This proposal provides a novel solution to the Frege-Geach problem.
In defense of artificial replacement
This paper reflects on the significance of Savulescu's principle of procreative beneficence for the long-term future of the human species.
Hidden qualia
In this paper, I propose that those who reject higher-order theories of consciousness should not rule out the possibility of having conscious experiences that they cannot introspect.
A Primitive Solution to the Negation Problem
This paper suggests that metaethical expressivists should be unbothered by a large number of brute norms and hence that they should be free to postulate their way out of Unwin's negation problem.