publications

books

The Movement for Black Lives: Philosophical Perspectives, coedited with Brandon Hogan, Michael Cholbi, and Alex Madva (Oxford, 2021)

Against Capital Punishment (Oxford, 2019)

papers and other things

All pdfs are uncorrected proofs. Please email me for the published versions.

“Defining Parental Punishment,” Southern Journal of Philosophy, early view

May We Execute Even the Worst Murderers?” Blog of the APA: Current Events in Public Philosophy (2024)

“Standing to Punish the Disadvantaged,” Criminal Law and Philosophy (2023) pdf

“Capital Punishment,” Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (Springer, 2023) pdf

“The Impermissibility of Execution,” Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Punishment (2023) pdf

“Lowering the Boom: A Brief for Penal Leniency,” Criminal Law and Philosophy (2021) pdf

“Sentencing Leniency for Black Offenders,” in The Movement for Black Lives: Philosophical Perspectives, eds. Hogan, et al. (2021)

“The Death Penalty,” 1000 Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology. Translated into Turkish here.

“Kant’s Theory of Motivation: A Hybrid Approach,” Review of Metaphysics 71.2. (2017)  pdf

“What’s Wrong with Differential Punishment,” Utilitas 29.3. (2017)  pdf

“Kant’s Demonstration of Free Will, or How to Do Things with Concepts,” Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 2.2. (2016)  pdf

“Punishment, Desert, and Equality: A Levinasian Analysis” in Death and Other Penalties: Philosophy in a Time of Mass Incarceration, eds. Adelsberg, Guenther, and Zeman (New York: Fordham UP, 2015): 142-157  pdf    buy the book

“The Irrevocability of Capital Punishment,” Journal of Social Philosophy, 42.3. (2011)  pdf

“Responsibility and Revision: a Levinasian Argument for the Abolition of Capital Punishment,” Continental Philosophy Review, 44.1. (2011)  pdf

“Kant’s Justification of the Death Penalty Reconsidered,” Kantian Review, 15.2. (2010)  pdf

“Freedom and Death,” Law and Peace in Kant’s Philosophy: Proceedings of the 10th International Kant Congress, vol. 3 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2008)  pdf

“Rule of Law Abolitionism,” Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, 42 (2008)  pdf

Book Reviews

Review of Sensen, ed. Kant on Moral Autonomy, Philosophical Review, 124.2. (2015) pdf