I graduated from Yale University in 2000, with a Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in Philosophy. After teaching at Zhejiang Institute of Science of Technology, I commenced graduate studies at Brown University where I am currently a doctoral student in the philosophy department. In 2008/2009 I will teach in the Expository Writing Program at Harvard University and beginning September 2009, I will begin teaching in the philosophy department at SUNY Albany.
I specialize in ethics (especially moral psychology), philosophy of action-, bioethics, and some areas of political philosophy. My dissertation is called “The Role of the Imagination in Actions and Emotions”. My dissertation committee consists of Nomy Arpaly (chair), Jaegwon Kim, James Dreier, and Tamar Gendler.
Volatile Reasons (pdf)
Outsiders Inside The Political Obligations of Refugees (pdf)
Dissertation Extract: Imagination and Motivation
PL12: Freedom and Responsibility, Brown University (syllabus)
PL 190: Contemporary Moral Problems, Brown University (syllabus)
Brown University, PO Box 1918, Providence, RI 02912
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January 22,2008: Department of Philosophy University of Albany, SUNY "Real Fictional Emotions"
February 27,2008: Philosophy Graduate Forum, Brown University "Real Fictional Emotions"
April 25, 2008: New England Political Science Association Meeting. Discussant for panel on “Autonomy and Social Freedom” (with Sharon Krause, Marina Oshana, James Stacey Taylor, Jason Brennan, and Don Tontiplaphol).
April 26, 2008: Harvard-MIT Graduate Philosophy Conference “Outsiders Inside: The Political Obligations of Refugees” (keynote Thomas Scanlon)
