Research
Select Papers
“Binding the Self: The Ethics of Ulysses Contracts” (ms under review, available on request)
“Remaining True to Ourselves: Dementia, Value Change, and Enduring Interests” (forthcoming in Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy)
“Competence for Minors and Medical Decision-Making,” Proceedings of the British Academy, Children’s Consent: Philosophy and Law in Conversation (forthcoming)
“Teaching Children to Think: Autonomy as an Aim of Education,” Journal of Applied Philosophy (Online First, December 2021), doi: 10.1111/japp.12563
“What Parents May Teach Their Children: A Defense of Perfectionism in Childrearing,” Social Theory and Practice 45, no. 3 (July 2019): 371-96.
“Holding on to the Reasons of the Heart: Cognitive Deterioration and the Capacity to Love” (with Agnieszka Jaworska), in Love, Reason, and Morality, edited by Esther Kroeker and Katrien Schaubroeck (London: Routledge, 2016), 20-38.
“On Becoming an Adult: Autonomy and the Moral Relevance of Life’s Stages,” Philosophical Quarterly 63 (April 2013): 223-47.
“Creation and Authority: The Natural Law Foundations of Locke’s Account of Parental Authority,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 42, nos. 3/4 (September/December 2012): 255-80.