Welcome to my online home!

Thanks for coming by my website.  I’m currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Western Michigan University and a Senior Research Fellow at The Australian National University’s Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.  I have been a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, a Visiting Academic at the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford, a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethics at the American Medical Association.

Most of my writing and teaching is in ethical theory, applied ethics, and the history and philosophy of biology and science.  Recently I have been doing a lot of work in ethical issues of emerging technologies as well as in the ethics of terrorism and torture.  Each of these projects has culminated in books which are at various stages of production.  For the technology part, check out What Is Nanotechnology and Why Does It Matter:  From Science to Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).  For the terrorism and torture part, check out Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture (University of Chicago Press, 2012; also see here).  A separate page for my edited books will give you more information on them as well.

Thanks for taking the time to look around the site and feel free to email me.