About Me

I am a philosopher interested in a variety of areas (go here for more detail).

I research Kant, Hegel, and the German Idealist tradition, as well as ethics, epistemology, and religion broadly construed.  I’m currently finishing my first book on Kant’s doctrine of the highest good (under contract with Oxford University Press). And I’ve recently been investigating the religious thought of Kurt Gödel, as well as resonances between Fichte’s religious thought and the Tibetan Yogācāra tradition of Buddhism.

I’m a Research Associate at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey. From 2020-2023, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer for the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University for three years. I worked in the Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion (which will soon be called the project in Philosophy, Religion, and Existential Commitment in Society, or “PRECIS”) with Andrew Chignell and Lara Buchak. My Ph.D. is in philosophy from Johns Hopkins (2020), where I was advised by Eckart Förster. My M.A. is from the Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg.

My work has been featured in peer-reviewed philosophy journals like British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Inquiry, and Teaching Philosophy. I also have published for popular audiences in Aeon, and been featured on NPR’s The Academic Minute.

For my papers go here.