I am interested in what we ought to do and why, and especially in relationship between morality and human nature. How does what we are bear on what we ought to do? My work aims to make some progress on this question. I argue that morality is grounded in our nature as rational agents capable of acting for the sake of one another. I call this view “pluralist” constitutivism. It carves a middle path between traditional forms of constitutivism (e.g., Kantian constitutivism), according to which moral norms must be grounded in the nature of rational agency as such, and Aristotelian naturalism, according to which moral norms are grounded in our specifically human nature. The capacity to act for another’s sake, I contend, marks a kind of rational agency—one not shared by all possible rational agents, but possibly shared with non-human agents. You can see some of my papers & handouts on these topics here.

I received my PhD from MIT in 2026, where I was advised by Kieran Setiya (along with Tamar Schapiro and Jeremy Fix). Before MIT, I received my BA in Philosophy from Northwestern in 2020, where I was advised by Kyla Ebels-Duggan. Before Northwestern, I went to high school in Dallas, Texas.

When not philosophizing, I like to climb and watch movies. I am also attempting to read In Search of Lost Time and to learn to play chess. So far, I am having more success with the former.