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Publications:

Book

• Personal Identity and Applied Ethics (London and New York: Routledge, 2018). ​

Edited book

• Derek Parfit’s Reasons and Persons: An Introduction and Critical Inquiry (London and New York: Routledge, 2020)

Papers in refereed academic journals

• Concrete Possible Worlds and Counterfactual Conditionals: Lewis vs. Williamson on Modal Knowledge, Synthese 176, 3 (2010): 345–59.
• (with Paisley Livingston) Philosophical Perspectives on Fictional Characters, New Literary History 42, 2 (2011): 337–60.
• Functional Beauty, Architecture, and Morality, The Philosophical Quarterly 62, 246 (2012): 128–47.
• Modal Scepticism, Unqualified Modality, and Modal Kinds, Philosophia 40 (2012): 403–9.
• The Structure and Content of Architectural Experience, Estetika 49, 1 (2012): 26–44.
• Fictional Objects, Non-Existence, and the Principle of Characterization, Philosophical Studies 159, 1 (2012): 139–46.
• Ethicism and Immoral Cognitivism: Gaut vs. Kieran on Art and Morality, Journal of Aesthetic Education 46, 3 (2012): 107–18.
• On Architecture as a Spatial Art, Nordic Journal of Aesthetics 43 (2012).
• Functional Beauty, Perception, and Aesthetic Judgements, British Journal of Aesthetics 53, 1 (2013): 41–53.
• Ontology, Reference, and the Qua Problem: Amie Thomasson on Existence, Axiomathes 23, 3 (2013): 543–50.
• Modal Fictionalism, Possible Worlds, and Artificiality, Acta Analytica 28, 4 (2013): 411–21.
• The Merited Response Argument and Artistic Categories, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 71, 3 (2013): 239–46.
• Life-Extension and the Burden of Mortality: Leon Kass versus John Harris, Journal of Medical Ethics 40 (2014): 336–40.
• Horror and Mood, American Philosophical Quarterly 51, 1 (2014): 39–50.
• Sibley on ‘Beautiful’ and ‘Ugly’, Philosophical Papers 43, 3 (2014): 377–404.
• Gendler on the Puzzle(s) of Imaginative Resistance, Acta Analytica 31, 1 (2016): 1–9.
• The Definition of Religion, Super-empirical Realities, and Mathematics, Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie 58,  1 (2016): 67–75. 
• The Acquaintance Principle, Aesthetic Judgments, and Conceptual Art, Journal of Aesthetic Education 50, 1 (2016): 1–15.
• Buddhist Reductionism, Fictionalism About the Self, and Buddhist Fictionalism, Philosophy East and West 66, 4 (2016): 1273–91.
• The Animal, the Corpse, and the Remnant-Person, Philosophical Studies 174, 1 (2017): 205–18.
• The Early Reception of Bernard Williams’ Reduplication Argument (1956-62), Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 99, 3 (2017): 326–45.
• The Future-Like-Ours Argument, Animalism, and Mereological Universalism, Bioethics 32, 3 (2018): 199–204.
• Life-Extending Enhancements and the Narrative Approach to Personal Identity, Journal of Medical Ethics 44 (2018): 219–25.
• ​The Will to Make-Believe: Religious Fictionalism, Religious Beliefs, and the Value of Art, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 96, 3 (2018): 620-635.
• On the Study of Imaginative Resistance, Analytic Philosophy 60, 2 (2019): 164-178.
• Animalism, Abortion, and a Future Like Ours, Journal of Ethics 23, 3 ​(2019): 317-32.
• Personal Identity and Trivial Survival, Theoria 85, 5 (2019): 402-11.
• Aesthetic Realism and Manifest Properties, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 80 (2022): 201–213.
• Centred Worlds, Personal Identity and Imagination, Theoria 88, 4 (2022): 868–80.
• ​What is an Aesthetic Concept? Asian Journal of Philosophy 1, 35 (2022): 1-17.
• Metaphysical Egoism and Personal Identity, Journal of Value Inquiry 56 (2022): 587–99.​
• Aesthetic Testimony and Aesthetic Concepts, American Philosophical Quarterly 61, 1 (2024): 59–72.
• ​Pretending and Disbelieving, Inquiry 67, 6 (2024): 1991-2004.
  
• Life-Suspending Technologies, Cryonics, and Catastrophic Risks, Science and Engineering Ethics 30, 37 (2024): 1-16.
• In Defence of the Acquaintance Principle in Aesthetics, Episteme (Forthcoming).​​​

Book chapters

• ​Aesthetic Value, Artistic Value, and Morality, in David Coady, Kimberley Brownlee, and Kasper Lipper-Rasmussen (eds.) Blackwell Companion to Applied Philosophy (Blackwell, 2017): 514–26.
• The Simplicity of the Simple Approach to Personal Identity, in Pisa Colloquium in Logic, Language and Epistemology, Vol. 3 (Pisa: ETS, 2019): 347–58.
• Introduction, in Derek Parfit’s Reasons and Persons: An Introduction and Critical Inquiry (2020): 1–9.
• Introduction to Part III: Personal Identity, in Derek Parfit’s Reasons and Persons: An Introduction and Critical Inquiry (2020): 48–67.

Bibliographies ​& surveys

• Art and Morality, in Duncan Pritchard (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies Online. New York: Oxford University Press (2013);
• La Critica Etica dell’Arte, Aphex, 8 (2013) ['The Ethical Criticism of Art', in Italian].

Other (blog posts, etc)

• Imagining Being Someone Else, The Junkyard (2019).