My philosophical interests lie at the intersection of ethics, moral psychology, and the philosophy of action. Most generally, I’m interested in what it means to live well and how various forms of agency contribute to (or detract from) the good life. I like to approach these questions through the history of philosophy, and my written work to date has focused on understanding Friedrich Nietzsche’s fascinating—and occasionally unsettling—attempts to answer them.

I defended my dissertation, titled Nietzsche on Strength, in 2023. In it, I offered an extended interpretation of the Nietzschean ideal of strength [Stärke], which I believe is best understood as a form of strength of will. I argued that Nietzsche offers a novel and philosophically rich theory of what it is to have a strong or weak will, one that unifies competing alternatives in the philosophy of action.

I have published two article based on chapters of my dissertation. Additionally, I am working on several new projects that extend the work I began in the dissertation.

Publications

Works in Progress

  • A paper on the role of conscience in Nietzsche’s ethics (in draft)

  • A paper exploring what it means to “become who you are” (in draft)