I work in ethics, moral psychology, and social philosophy (particularly as it intersects with feminist philosophy).
Publications and forthcoming:
This entry reviews philosophical literature on the nature of and appropriate responses to domestic violence, and discusses why the pursuit of greater clarity remains an ethically, socially, and politically important challenge.
This paper presents an account of alienated love, love where we are substantively alienated or estranged from the beloved because our attitudinal practices keep the beloved at a distance. Although alienated love can leave us without much of what makes love valuable, this paper argues that alienated love can also meaningfully inform our identities, connect us to the world, and connect us to hard-to-find communities.
This paper engages with the work of Taylor Swift to present non-academic readers with different philosophical accounts of love and advances an account of how the constitutive features of love make us inevitably vulnerable to our beloveds.
This article aims to clarify and expand our conceptual repertoire for understanding domestic violence and abuse by making legible different characteristic harms, particularly those that cannot be made sense of in terms of physical harm. More specifically, this article argues that through the characteristic social isolation of domestic violence and abuse, perpetrators alienate victims from what motivationally roots them to the world.
This paper distinguishes between two kinds of moral harm that I argue are characteristically suffered by victims of domestic violence, namely moral damage and moral injury.
In progress/under review:
A paper on defining domestic violence (promised to an edited collection on philosophy and the family, draft available)
A paper on loving with grit