Publications

Book Projects

1. The Reality of the Ideal: A Study of Kant’s Highest Good, Oxford University Press. 2025.

Available for order at: Amazon, Oxford University Press, and Barnes & Noble.

Reviews have appeared so far in: Kantian Review, Universa

Popular Philosophy

1. “Building a ‘Stable Abode of Thought’: Kant’s Three Rules for Virtuous Thinking.” The Conversation. October 23, 2025.
2. “Virūpa, Meet Fichte: Uncanny resonances in comparative philosophy.“ The Immanent Frame. July 31, 2024.
3. “We’ll Meet Again: The intrepid logician Kurt Gödel believed in the afterlife.“ Aeon. January 2, 2024.

Media Mentions: The Academic Minute, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Leiter Reports

Peer-Reviewed Papers Published (and Forthcoming)

1. “Why Gödel Believed in the Afterlife.” Synthese. Vol. 207. 2026.

2. “Kant as a Carpenter of Reason: The Highest Good and Systematic Coherence.” British Journal for the History of Philosophy. Vol. 32, No. 3 (pp. 496-524) 2024.

3. “Kant’s Favorite Argument for Our Immortality: The Teleological Argument.” (PDF) Res Philosophica, Vol. 100, No. 3 (pp. 357-388) 2023.

4. “The Conceptual Origin of Worldview in Kant and Fichte.” (PDF) Journal of Transcendental Philosophy, Vol. 4, No. 1 (pp. 1-24) 2023.

5. “How a Kantian Ideal Can Be Practical” (PDF)  Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 65 (pp. 1-28) 2022.*

   * This paper has received a commentary in Inquiry by A.F. Bella, who connects my analysis in fruitful ways to recent developments in psychological research.

6. “Philosophical Think Tanks.” (PDF) Teaching Philosophy, Vol. 43, No. 4 (pp. 1-25) 2020.

7. “Dutifully Wishing: Kant’s Re-Evaluation of a Strange Species of Desire.” (PDF) Kantian Review, Vol. 22, No. 3 (pp. 373-394) 2017.

8. “Life, Logic, and the Pursuit of Purity.” (PDF) Hegel-Studien, Vol. 50 (pp. 63-95) 2016.

9. “Pecca Fortiter for the Sake of Morality? Making Sense of Wrong in Hegel’s System of Right.” (PDF)  Hegel Bulletin, Vol. 35, Special Issue 2 (pp. 204-227) 2014.

*Top Image was created with the assistance of DALL•E 2. Thanks to Tom Wilk for conceiving of Kant at work as a carpenter.