I am Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University, and my research in ethics largely focuses on questions at the intersection of moral psychology and virtue theory.
There are two strands of research that I have been working on. The first concerns the nature of moral emotions and attitudes (such as contempt, resentment, and empathy) and their relationship to social virtue. My research here is driven by questions like when we should blame or forgive, what virtues we ought to develop in social relationships, how moral emotions should affect the demands of intimate relationships, and what is the role of attitudes like contempt in our moral life should be. A second set of research questions relate to the nature of moral development, particularly models of moral development we use and the practical pedagogical impact this has. My work is deeply influenced by both ancient philosophy and feminist philosophy, and I approach these philosophical questions with a commitment to evaluating the adequacy of our normative theories to meet the challenges of the world we actually live in, not just the way we wish the world were. |