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Employment

January 2022 — Assistant Professor of Moral, Political, and Socia Philosophy, Durham University
January 2016 - December 2021: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Nottingham

Education

August 2016: Ph.D in Philosophy, University of Southern California
May 2007: M.A. in Philosophy, University of Auckland [First Class Honours]
May 2005: BA (Hons) in Philosophy, University of Auckland [First Class Honours]
May 2003: BA/LLB (Conjoint), University of Auckland

AOS

Social Philosophy (esp. Phliosophy of Race and Racism, Feminist Philosophy & Philosophy of Disability)
Philosophy of Agency and Responsibility
Normative Ethics
Philosophy of Law

AOC

Epistemology
Political Philosophy

Publications

• “Making Sense of Shame in Response to Racism” (2021) Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 51(7): 535-550

• “Proof Paradoxes, Agency, and Stereotyping” (2021) Philosophical Issues 10.1111/phis.12191

• “Socially Embeded Agency: Lessons from Marginalized Identities” (2021) Oxford Stuides in Agency and Responsibility Volume 7: 104-129 Dave Shoemaker (ed.)

• “How to Theorise about the Criminal Law: Thoughts on Methodology Prompted by Alex Sarch’s Criminally Ignorant” (2021) Jurisprudence, 12(2): 247-258

• “Shame and the Ethical in Williams”, forthcoming in Agency, Fate, and Luck: Themes from Bernard Williams, OUP [co-authored with Steve Bero]

• “Disability, Impairment, and Marginalised Functioning” (2021) Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 99(4): 730-747 [co-authored with Katharine Jenkins]

• “Conjuring Ethics from Words” (2015) Noûs, 49(1): 71-93 [co-authored with Jonathan McKeown-Green & Glen Pettigrove]

• “Burdens of Proof and the Case for Unevenness” (2013) Argumentation, 27(3): 259-282 [co-authored with Imran Aijaz & Jonathan McKeown-Green]

Works in Progress

• “Torts vs Crimes: Responsibility and Rights” [promised to New Directsions in Private Law, UCL Press]

• “Blameworthiness and Negligence”

• “How Demanding are Morality and Rationality?”

• “Rehabilitating Shame and Lessons from Oppressive Shame” [co-authored with Steve Bero]

Selected Presentations

• February 2021: “Blameworthiness for Negligence”, Criminal Law and the Mind Seminar, UCL (as a part of Alexander Greenberg’s Leverhulme Project) [invited]

• November 2020: “Statistical Generalisations and Stereotyping: An Agency-Based Argument”, Maastricht Law and Philosophy Platform [invitied]

• November 2019: “Autonomy and Agency: Lessons from Marginalised Identities”, New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility, Murphy Institute at Tulane University [refereed]

• June 2019: “Shame and Autonomy in Williams” (co-authored with Steve Bero), Agency, Fate, and Luck: Themes from Bernard Williams, Lund University [refereed]

• May 2019: “Social Agency”, Symposium in Honor of Gary Watson, USC [invited]

• February 2019: “Distinguishing between Torts and Crimes”, Private Law Forum, School of Law, London School of Economics [invitied]

• July 2018: “Disability, Impairment, and Marginalised Functioning” (co-authored and co-presented with Katharine Jenkins), Social Metaphysics Conference, University of Nottingham [refereed]

• June 2018: “Racism and Shame”, GRSelona: Fourth Barcelona Conference on Gender, Race, and Sexuality [refereed]

• June 2018: Keynote on “Demandingness of Morality and Rationality” at Birmingham-Nottingham-Warwick Graduate Conference at University of Nottingham [invited]

• May 2017: “Blameworthiness for Negligence”, Legal Philosophy Workshop, University College London [refereed]

• April 2016: “Terror, Tactics, and Preferences", APA (Pacific), San Francisco [refereed]

• March 2013: “Corrective Justice Supplemented”, APA (Pacific), San Francisco [refereed]

• April 2011: “Too Hard: The Demandingness Objection To Ethics & Rationality", NYU/Columbia University Graduate Conference, New  York [refereed]

• July 2008: “Giving Till It Hurts”, Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference, Melbourne [refereed]

Referees

Gary Watson, Provost Professor of Philosophy & Law, University of Southern California
Jonathan Quong, Associate Professor of Philosophy & Law, University of Southern California
Glen Pettigrove, Chair of Moral Philosophy, University of Glasgow