RESEARCH

My project at a glance...

THEORY

Loving: Emotional Experience

• “The Non-Arbitrary Link Between Feeling and Value.” Philosophies, special issue, ed. Robert Cowan, 2024.

• “Content and the Fittingness of Emotion.” Philosophical Quarterly, 2021.

• “The Epistemic Significance of Emotional Experience.” Emotion Review, 2020. Winner of the 2021 Dallas Willard Center Research Award.

• “The Normativity of Emotion: What Role for Evaluative Content?” In The Normativity of Mental States, eds. Fabrice Teroni and Robert Pál-Wallin, Lund University Press. Invited.

The Good: Extrinsic Final Value

• The Falling Light: Extrinsic Final Value in the Axiology of Theism. Routledge, under contract.

Meaning: Life’s Narrativity

• “Arbitrary Narratives.” The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming.

• “Christianity and the Life Story.” Faith & Philosophy, 2021.

• “The Healing Power of Self-Narration.” In The Cambridge Companion to Religion and Soul Care, eds. Charles Taliaferro and Chad Meister. Invited.

APPLICATIONS

Human Dignity

• “Saving Wolterstorff from Euthyphro.” Faith & Philosophy, forthcoming.

• “Godless Dignity? A Critique of Erik Wielenberg’s Grounding of Human Rights.” Philosophia Christi, 2025.

• “Incarnational Human Dignity.” Agatheos: The European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2024.

Environmental Value

• God and Environmental Value. Cambridge Elements in the Problems of God, under contract.

Other-Worldly Hope

• “Faith Because of Evil.” Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, forthcoming. Winner of the 2025 Plantinga Prize.

• “Would God Be the Ultimate Attachment Figure?” In Religious Faith & Meaning Making, ed. Kirk Lougheed, Palgrave Macmillan, 2026.

• “The Rationality of Faith and the Benefits of Religion.” International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, 2017.

• “A Universalist Reply to Schellenberg’s New Argument for Atheism.” International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, symposium, ed. Andrei Buckareff. Invited.

• “The Pragmatic Argument from Beauty.” In The Argument from Beauty, eds. Paul Gould and Paul Copan, Wiley-Blackwell. Invited.

The Axiology of Theism

• “Our Lives Go Better in a World Created by God.” Religious Studies, 2025.

• “The Threat of Anti-Theism: What Is at Stake in the Axiology of God?” Philosophical Quarterly, 2023.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

• “What’s So Bad About AI Art?” Under review.

• “Future Glory, Present Dignity.” Under review.

• “Paganini’s Violin.”

• “The Destroyer’s Dilemma: An Environmental Problem of Meaning.”

• “What Is It Like to Be a Machine?”

• “Preference-Mediated Arguments for Anti-Theism.”

BOOK REVIEWS

• Review of Ordered by Love by Thomas Ward. Cranmer Theological Journal, 2023.

• Review of The Virtue of Limits by David McPherson. Philosophical Quarterly, 2023.