Research

My CV can be found here. A topical breakdown of my academic publications + some videos: 

Honor/Dignity

“Honor,” for Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies, Scott Ellison, ed., (Cham, Springer, 2023).

“Honor Ethics: The Challenge of Globalizing Value Alignment in AI” (co-authored with Stephen Wu (lead author) and Rudwan Husain), Proceedings of the 2023 ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (2023): 593–602.

“Defense with Dignity: How the Dignity of Violent Resistance Informs the Gun Rights Debate,” Philosophical Studies 179.12 (2022): 3653-3670. 

“Honour,” for Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2020). 

“Dignitarian Hunting: A Rights-Based Defense” (co-authored with Bob Fischer), Social Theory and Practice 44.1 (2018): 49-73. 

Honor in the Modern World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Laurie Johnson and Dan Demetriou, eds. (Lexington Books, 2016). 

“Fighting Together: Civil Discourse and Agonism,” Honor in the Modern World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Laurie Johnson and Dan Demetriou, eds. (Lexington Books, 2016): 21-41. 

“Civic Immortality: The Problem of Civic Honor in Africa and the West,” Journal of Ethics 19.3-4 (2015): 257-276. 

“Fighting Fair: The Ecology of Honor in Humans and Animals,” in Beastly Morality, J. Crane, ed. (Columbia University Press, 2015): 123-154. 

George Washington’s Lessons for Ethical Leadership (short ebook co-authored with Craig Bruce Smith) (George Washington’s Mt. Vernon, 2015). 

“What Should Realists Say About Honor Cultures?” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 17.5 (2014): 893-911. 

“Honor War Theory: Romance or Reality?” Philosophical Papers 42.3 (2013): 285-313. 

“The Virtues of Honorable Business Executives,” in Virtues in Action: New Essays in Applied Virtue Ethics, M. Austin, ed. (Palgrave Macmillian, 2013): 23-38. 

Monuments

“Offensive Heritage in an Era of Globalization and Mass Migration” (co-authored with Ajume Wingo), Journal of Applied Philosophy 42.2 (2025): 601-619. 

“Questioning the Assumptions of Moralism, Universalism, and Interpretive Dominance in Racist Monument Debates,” Public Affairs Quarterly 36.3 (2022): 233-255. 

“Ashes of Our Fathers: Racist Monuments and the Tribal Right,” Ethics, Left and Right: The Moral Issues That Divide Us, Bob Fischer, ed. (Oxford University Press, 2019): 523-531. 

• Includes “Reply to Timmerman” Ethics, Left and Right: The Moral Issues That Divide Us, Bob Fischer, ed. (Oxford University Press, 2019): 534-537.

“The Ethics of Racist Monuments” (co-authored with Ajume Wingo), Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy, David Boonin, ed. (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018): 341-355. 

Sex/Gender

“Do Women War Refugees Owe Connubial Loyalty to the Men They Leave Behind?”, Public Affairs Quarterly 39.2 (2025): 87–102.

“Virgin vs. Chad: On Enforced Monogamy as a Solution to the Incel Problem,” Palgrave Handbook of Sex Ethics, David Boonin, ed. (Palgrave, 2022): 155-175. 

Immigration/Nation

“On the Incoherence of Libertarian Open Borders Theory,” Problems in Applied Ethics: An Introduction to Contemporary Debates, Steven Cowan, ed. (Bloomsbury, 2026). 

Moral Psychology and Metaethics

“There’s Some Fetish in Your Ethics: A Limited Defense of Purity Reasoning,” Journal of Philosophical Research 38 (2013): 377-404. 

“A Modest Intuitionist Reply to Greene’s fMRI-Based Objections to Deontology,” Southwest Philosophy Review 25.1 (2009): 107-117. 

“The Fictionalist’s Attitude Problem” (co-authored with Graham Oddie), Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 10.5 (2007): 485-498. 

• Reprinted in A World Without Values: Essays on John Mackie’s Moral Error Theory, R. Joyce and S. Kirchin, eds. (Springer, 2009): 199-216.

Law

“Justifying Punishment: The Educative Approach as Presumptive Favorite,” Criminal Justice Ethics 31.1 (2012): 1-17. 

Book Reviews

Review of Why Honor Matters by Tamler Sommers, Philosopher’s Magazine 82 (2018): 113-115. 

Review of Modern Honor: A Philosophical Defense by Anthony Cunningham, Journal of Moral Philosophy 14.2 (2017): 221-224. 

Review of The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Mind 122.486 (2013): 509-514. 

Review (co-authored with Graham Oddie) of Moral Fictionalism by Mark Kalderon, Mind 116.462 (2007): 439-446.