I teach at Northwestern University, where I am an associate professor in the Philosophy Department.

My primary interests are in ethics and practical reason, and their intersection with action theory. I’m particularly interested in the question of what we may be required to take responsibility for (in both backward-looking and forward-looking senses of that phrase). One broad theme of my work is that this is itself a distinctive normative question whose answer depends in various ways on one’s normative context–for example, on the background political and personal relations one is involved in.

Recently, I have been writing about whether predictions about how one is likely to act in some situation or other have any legitimate role to play in deliberation. I am also working on a project about collective obligations–obligations that apply in the first instance to groups of people–and how we should understand their relevance for individual members of those groups.