Publications
Textbooks
Ethics, Left and Right: The Moral Issues That Divide Us. Oxford University Press, 2019.
College Ethics: A Reader on Moral Issues That Affect You. Oxford University Press, 2017. Second Edition: 2020.
- For some thoughts about this project, please see my post at Daily Nous. You can find a review of the book here.
Monographs & Multi-author Volumes
What We Owe Other Animals, w/ Anja Jauernig. Under contract with Routledge.
Wildlife Ethics: Animal Ethics in Wildlife Management and Conservation, w/ Christian Gamborg, Jordan Owen Hampton, Clare Palmer, and Peter Sandoe. Under contract with Blackwell.
Animal Ethics — A Contemporary Introduction. Under contract with Routledge.
The Ethics of Eating Animals: Usually Bad, Sometimes Wrong, Often Permissible. Routledge, 2020.
Modal Justification via Theories. Springer, 2017; NDPR Review.
Edited Volumes
The Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics. Routledge, 2019.
Modal Epistemology After Rationalism. Edited with Felipe Leon; Springer, 2017.
The Moral Complexities of Eating Meat. Edited with Ben Bramble; Oxford University Press, 2015; NDPR Review.
Articles & Chapters
· Forthcoming ·
"In Defense of Disenhancement," Neuroethics and Nonhuman Animals, ed. Andrew Fenton, L. Syd M Johnson, and Adam Shriver; Springer.
“Comments on J. P. Andrew’s ‘The Insignificance of Taste’,” Southwest Philosophy Review.
"The Freegan Challenge to Veganism," w/ Josh Milburn; Ethical Diets and Animal Ethics — Beyond Extensionism, ed. Mark Alfino. Springer.
"Rawls Goes to Church," Theologica.
· 2020 ·
"Keep Your Cats Indoors: a Reply to Abbate," Acta Analytica.
"Quantifying the Valuation of Animal Welfare Among Americans," w/ Scott T. Weathers, Lucius Caviola, Laura Scherer, Stephan Pfister, Jesse B. Bump, and Lindsay M. Jaacks; Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics.
· 2019 ·
"Beyond the Neighborhood," w/ Jennifer Fischer; Mister Rogers and Philosophy, ed. Eric J. Mohr and Holly K. Mohr; Open Court, 2019.
“Just Policy Paralysis?," w/ Clare Palmer; Animal Sentience.
"How Lewis Can Meet the Integration Challenge," w/ Eric Gilbertson; Journal of Philosophical Research.
"The Problem with Person-rearing Accounts of Moral Status," w/ Travis Timmerman; Thought.
"Boycotting and Public Mourning," Res Publica.
"Be a Professional: Attend to the Insects," w/ Emily Sandall; American Entomologist.
"Collecting Insects to Conserve Them: A Call for Ethical Caution," w/ Brendon Larson; Insect Conservation and Diversity.
“Don’t Demean ‘Invasives’: Conservation and Wrongful Species Discrimination,” w/ C. E. Abbate; Animals.
"How to Reply to Some Ethical Objections to Entomophagy," Annals of the Entomological Society of America.
"In Defense of Backyard Chickens," w/ Josh Milburn; Journal of Applied Philosophy.
"Moral Bioenhancement Probably Won't Improve Things for Animals (and May Make Them Worse)," Topoi.
"Nonideal Ethics and Arguments against Eating Animals," Environmental Values.
· 2018 ·
"Individuals in the Wild," Animal Sentience.
"Animals as Honorary Humans," Ethical Vegetarianism and Veganism, ed. Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey; Routledge.
"Animal Rights and Incredulous Stares," Between the Species.
"Arguments for Consuming Animal Products," The Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics, ed. Anne Barnhill, Mark Budolfson, and Tyler Doggett; Oxford University Press.
"C. I. Lewis and the Benacerraf Problem," Episteme.
"Categorical Desires and the Badness of Animal Death," w/ Matt Bower, The Journal of Value Inquiry.
"Dignitarian Hunting: A Rights-based Defense," w/ Dan Demetriou Social Theory and Practice.
"Disassociation Intuitions," w/ Isaac Wiegman; Southwest Philosophy Review.
"Field Deaths in Plant Agriculture," w/ Andy Lamey; Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics.
"Is Abolitionism Guilty of Racism? A Reply to Cordeiro-Rodrigues," Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics.
"Speech and War: Rethinking the Ethics of Speech Restrictions," w/ Burkay Ozturk; The Value and Limits of Academic Speech: Philosophical, Political, and Legal Perspectives, ed. Donald Alexander Downs and Chris W. Surprenant; Routledge.
"Teaching for Our Good," Philosophers in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching, ed. Steven Cahn, Alexandra Bradner, and Andrew Mills; Hackett.
· 2017 ·
"What Can You Build?" LEGO and Philosophy, ed. Roy T. Cook and Sondra Bacharach; Blackwell, 2017.
"Facsimiles of Flesh," w/ Burkay Ozturk; Journal of Applied Philosophy.
"Focus on Fish: A Call to Effective Altruists," w/ Max Elder; Essays in Philosophy.
"Modal Empiricism: Objection, Reply, Proposal," Modal Epistemology After Rationalism, ed. Bob Fischer and Felipe Leon; Springer.
"The Moral Objection to Modal Realism," Erkenntnis.
"Wild Fish and Expected Utility," Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics.
· 2016 ·
"A Theory-based Epistemology of Modality," The Canadian Journal of Philosophy.
"Bugging the Strict Vegan," Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics.
"Disgust as Heuristic," Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.
"Hale on the Architecture of Modal Knowledge," Analytic Philosophy.
"What if Klein & Barron Are Right About Insect Sentience?" Animal Sentience.
"You Can't Buy Your Way Out of Veganism," Between the Species.
"The Modal-Knowno Problem," w/ Felipe Leon; Southwest Philosophy Review.
· 2015 ·
"Against Blaming the Blameworthy," in The Moral Complexities of Eating Meat, ed. Ben Bramble and Bob Fischer; Oxford University Press.
"Theory Selection in Modal Epistemology," American Philosophical Quarterly.
· 2014 ·
"Disgust and the Collection of Bovine Fetal Blood," in Animal Ethics and Philosophy: Questioning the Orthodoxy, ed. Elisa Aaltola and John Hadley; Rowman & Littlefield.
"Why It Doesn't Matter Whether the Virtues Are Truth-Conducive," Synthese.
“Salvaging Serviceability in Metaphysics,” w/ Eric Gilbertson; Southwest Philosophy Review.
· 2012 ·
"Why Incest Is Usually Wrong," Philosophy in the Contemporary World.
“Modal Knowledge, in Theory,” Southwest Philosophy Review.
General Audiences
"Personal Liberty vs. Public Good During a Pandemic," Scientific Inquirer, June 2020.
"Why Writing Better Will Make You a Better Person," The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 2019.
"Insider Talk: Challenging Food Choices," Prindle Post, August 2018
"Modal Epistemology," 1000-Word Philosophy, December 2017
"The Matter of Meat," CBC Radio's Ideas, November 2016
"When Vegans Won't Compromise," w/ James McWilliams The New York Times, August 2015
"From Outrage to Integration," Prindle Post, July 2015
"Why Act When It Doesn't Make a Difference?," Prindle Post, May 2015