I am currently Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. I work at the intersection of moral philosophy and the philosophy of mind and action. I am particularly interested in the affective side of moral psychology—things like desire, love and the emotions, their moral significance and meaning, how we understand them, the roles they play in moral motivation and the epistemology of value, and so on. Things I am currently working on include the ‘intelligibility’ of desire, and the possibility of understanding love as, as Iris Murdoch put it, ‘a central concept in morals’.

Before coming to St Andrews, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Institut Jean Nicod in the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (2020–22), and before that at the University of Fribourg and in the Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences in Geneva (2019–20), as a member of the Thumos research group, of which I remain an affiliate member. I completed my PhD in philosophy in December 2018 at University College London, where my dissertation was supervised by M. G. F. Martin and Ulrike Heuer. Before that I completed the MPhil Stud at UCL and an MA at King’s College London, also in philosophy. My undergraduate education was in fine arts at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Some of the video work I made on my BA can still be found here.