Although I teach on a wide variety of topics, my research primarily concerns problems in moral philosophy—especially problems arising where moral philosophy intersects with other branches of philosophy, such as philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, philosophy of language, or metaphysics.

Selected Bibliography

ARTICLES

• "The Wrongness of Killing and the Badness of Death," forthcoming in Ben Bradley, Fred Feldman and Jens Johansson (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Death (Oxford 2011).
• "Still More on the Metaphysics of Harm," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 82 (March 2011), pp. 459–469.
• "Harming and Procreating," in Melinda Roberts and David Wasserman (eds.), Harming Future Persons: Ethics, Genetics and the Nonidentity Problem (Springer-Verlag 2009).
• "Actions, Acting, and Acting Well," in Russ Shafer-Landau (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 3 (Oxford 2008), pp. 271-297.
• "The Metaphysics of Harm," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 77 (2), (2008), pp. 421-450.
• "Permissibility and Practical Inference," Ethics, 115 (April 2005), pp. 443-470.
• "Intention and Accident," Philosophical Studies, 98 (March 2000), pp. 17-36.
• "Killing, Letting Die and Preventing People from Being Saved," Utilitas, 11 (November 1999), pp. 277-295.
• "Intention and Teleology," Mind, 107 (April 1998), pp. 381-401.
• "Why Are Killing and Letting Die Wrong?" Philosophy & Public Affairs, 24 (Summer 1995), pp. 175-201.
• "Harming Future People," Philosophy & Public Affairs, 19 (Winter 1990), pp. 47-70.

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