German Philosophy

• Self-Knowledge and Reflection in Schopenhauer’s View of Agency, Inquiry, forthcoming,  10.1080/0020174X.2023.2178029
• Acquired Character, in The Schopenhauerian Mind, edited by David Bather Woods and Timothy Stoll, Routledge, 2023
• ‘Fine, invisible threads’: Schopenhauer on the Cognitively Mediated Structure of Motivation, Journal of Modern Philosophy, 4(1): 14, pp. 1–22, 2022 https://doi.org/10.32881/jomp.194

Aesthetics/Ethics

• Ambivalence and the Waning of Character in Modernism, Philosophy and Literature, forthcoming
• Mutual Vanities: On Being Understood by Art, Philosophical Topics 52 (1): 81-96, 2024 https://doi.org/10.5840/philtopics20245216
• Why Delight in Screamed Vocals? Emotional Hardcore and the Case Against Beautifying Pain, British Journal of Aesthetics, 64 (4): 625-646, 2024 https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayae012
• Sontag on Impertinent Sympathy and Photographs of Evil, in Comparative Metaethics: Neglected Perspectives on the Foundations of Morality, edited by Colin Marshall, Routledge, 2020

Works in Progress (drafts available upon request)

• A paper on Schopenhauer’s ethics
• A paper on Lou Salomé’s Aesthetic
• A paper on friendship

Books Under Contract

• Why It’s OK to Think This Song is About You. Routledge.
  • We’ve all heard Carly Simon’s lyrics: you’re so vain, you probably think this song is about you. In this book, I argue that sometimes she’s right: this song is about me; I am vain in thinking so; but it is OK to be a little vain in your aesthetic life. In developing this argument, I revive two traditions in aesthetics that have for a while now fallen out of fashion, romanticism and expressionism, and show how they speak to central elements of the everyday conception of the value of artworks.

Upcoming/Recent Presentations

• Emo, Sincerity, and Performing Self-Hatred (Panel on the Aesthetics of Hardcore, Punk & Emo w/ Emmie Malone and Bryce Huebner), 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, Baltimore, Maryland, October 22-25, 2025
• On Being Understood by Art, Department Colloquium, Simon Fraser University, April 11, 2025

Reviews

• Patrick Hassan (ed.). Schopenhauer’s Moral Philosophy, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2025
• Mor Segev. The Value of the World and of Oneself: Philosophical Optimism and Pessimism from Aristotle to Modernity, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 106 (3): 656-660, 2024
• Andrew Bowie. Adorno and the Ends of Philosophy, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 23 (1): 146-151, 2013