My primary research areas are decision theory and normative ethics, though I also have broader interests in formal epistemology, philosophy of science, and PPE.
Lately, I have been investigating the extent to which Bayesian decision theory can be neatly integrated with traditional deontological principles, like the doctrines of double effect and doing and allowing. This project aims to clarify the logic of some classic forms of moral reasoning, while also enabling non-consequentialists to avail themselves of standard approaches to risk management in the face of both empirical and normative uncertainty. A more detailed summary of this work as well as other facets of my overall research program can be found here.
I have also been assisting Wolfgang Spohn in a project exploring the foundations of decision and game theory.
My dissertation, The Logic of Planning, unpacked the import of dynamic consistency principles in the context of Jeffrey-style decision theories (i.e., theories in the mold of Richard Jeffrey’s classic Logic of Decision).
Publications
- A Causal Modeler’s Guide to Double Effect Reasoning, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (forthcoming).
- Prediction Impairs Deliberation, Ergo (forthcoming).
- Evidence, Causality, and Sequential Choice, Theory and Decision (forthcoming).
- A Plan-Based Causal Decision Theory, Analysis (2022).
- Bradley Conditionals and Dynamic Choice (with Simon Huttegger), Synthese (2021).
- Dynamic Consistency in the Logic of Decision, Philosophical Studies (2020).
- Review of Richard Pettigrew’s Accuracy and the Laws of Credence (with Chad Marxen), Philosophy of Science (2018).
Works in Progress
- A Causal Modeler’s Guide to Doing and Allowing Harm.
- Is the Means Principle Dynamically Coherent?
- Dependency Equilibria: Extending Nash Equilibria to Entangled Belief Systems (with Wolfgang Spohn and Mantas Radzvilas).
- Deference and Decision (with Daniel Herrmann).
- Consequentialism without Consequences (with Daniel Herrmann).