Welcome!

Since 2019 I have been a professor in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton, with appointments in the Religion and Philosophy departments.  From 2020 to 2023, I was the president of the North American Kant Society, and in 2024 I’m heading up (together with Katharina Kraus) the society’s North American efforts to celebrate Kant’s 300th birthday.

Together with Lara Buchak, I direct the new Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion (3PR). I’m also on the faculty steering committee for the Princeton DeCenter and co-directing the Princeton Food Project.  

From 2004 to 2016, I was assistant and then associate professor at Cornell’s Susan Linn Sage School of Philosophy, with affiliations in German Studies and Religious Studies. 

And from 2016 to 2017 I was a professor in the University of Pennsylvania Philosophy department.

My research focuses mostly on Immanuel Kant and other 17th-19th century philosophers, as well as on philosophy of religion, the ethics of belief, and certain issues in aesthetics and moral psychology (especially hope and despair). I also have a scholarly-activist interest in food and animal ethics. 

Here is my full CV.