Publications

Animal Rationality Through Higher-Order Reasons (with Zsófia Virányi)
The Philosophical Quarterly. forthcoming

We raise a principled methodological challenge for studies that claim to show that animals are reflectively responsive to higher-order reasons and propose a new study-design that evades our challenge.

Practical Animal Reasoning
The Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Australasia. 2021

I take Hanjo Glock’s account of animal agency and show how it could be expanded to argue that animals possess the concept of a reason.

Übersehene Generische Maskulina (with Marlene Valek)
zisch: zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre schreibforschung. 2021

We look at the use of gender-inclusive language in the most prestigeous German-speaking philosophy journal and hypothesize its use may be so inconsistent even within articles (hint, the journal does not have a guidebook for gender-inclusive language use).

Selected Talks

Find a full list of my previous talks here.

On What It’s Like to Act for a Reason
Charles University of Prague, Annual Hume Society Conference, June 2026
UIUC, Graduate Conference, March 2026
UChicago, Practical Philosophy Workshop, February 2025

Animal Rationality Through Higher-Order Reasons
University of Stirling, Rational Animals Conference, June 2025
University of Laval, Everything Agency Conference, April 2025
Florida State University, Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Agency Conference, October 2024
London School of Economics, Workshop on Animal Minds, April 2024

Drafts

An empirical study on reasons-responsiveness in dogs (currently under review)
A paper on reasons-responsiveness as an ability
A paper on a Sartrean account of the phenomenology of acting for reasons