Publications
2025. “A Hedonic Subjectivism.” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy.
2025. “Why Pain Matters More than Pleasure for Well-Being.” The Journal of Ethics.
2023. “Pessimism and Procreation.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
2023. “The Dilemma for Attitude Theories of Pleasure.” Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind, vol. 3. With Alexander Dietz.
2022. “Attraction, Aversion, and Asymmetrical Desires.” Ethics.
2022. “The Pleasure Problem and the Spriggean Solution.” Journal of the American Philosophical Association.
2021. “How Do We Differ When We Differ in Tastes?” Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy.
2021. “An Honest Look at Hybrid Theories of Pleasure.” Philosophical Studies.
2019. “Why Humean Causation Is Extrinsic.” Thought: A Journal of Philosophy.
Book Chapters
2026. “Pleasure and Desire.” The Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Desire.
2025. “The Value of Fact and Feeling.” The Philosophy of Ted Chiang.
Presentations
2025. “Comments on ‘An Aristotelian Argument for the Intrinsic Value of Pleasure.’” Kansas Workshop on Well-Being.
2025. “AI Consciousness and AI Behavior.” Workshop on AI Consciousness and Well-Being, HKU AI & Humanity Lab.
2024. “AI and Mere Superficial Resemblance.” Sun Yat-sen University–Lingnan University Philosophy Workshop.
2024. “Attraction and Aversion as Pleasure and Displeasure.” Helsinki Workshop on Well-Being.
2023. “An Expanded Role for Pleasure in Well-Being.” Value of Consciousness Series.
2023. “Narrow Sentientism Defended.” Trinity Workshop on Moral Status.
2023. “The Vagueness of Experience.” Structuralism in Consciousness Studies, Berlin.
2023. “Moral Realism Made Easy.” Lingnan Work in Progress Talk Series.
2023. “Pessimism and Procreation.” Long Beach Ethics Forum.
2022. “Comments on ‘Attraction, Aversion, and Meaning in Life.’” 2022 Vancouver Summer Philosophy Conference.
2022. “Optimism about Pessimism about Well-Being” (Symposium). 2022 Pacific APA.
2021. “The Evidence for Robot Affect.” Workshop on Desire, Valence and Affect in AI, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford.
2021. “A Dilemma for Attitudinal Theorists” (Symposium, with Alex Dietz). 2021 Eastern APA.
2020. “Metaethics without Hume.” USC Speculative Society.
2020. “A Dilemma for Attitudinal Theorists” (with Alex Dietz). Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association.
2020. “Affect Satisfactionism.” USC Speculative Society.
Honours and Awards
2015. Winner of the George H. Catlin Prize for Promise in Graduate Study
2015. Winner of the Milton Hymers Sternfeld Prize for Best Original Essay in Philosophy
2014. Member of Phi Beta Kappa Academic Society
2014. Member of Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Society
2014. Winner of the Harold A. Larrabee Prize for Best Work in Philosophy