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 co-organized the yearlong Virtual Kant Congress in honor of Kant’s 300th birthday.

Together with Lara Buchak, I direct the Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion (3PR). I’m also on the faculty steering committee for the Princeton DeCenter and 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 teaching interest in food and animal ethics. 

Here is my full CV.