Publications

Animal Rationality Through Higher-Order Reasons (with Zsófia Virányi)
The Philosophical Quarterly. 2026

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).

In Progress

There’s a Reason to Hide Only When Being Watched: Do Dogs Respond to Higher-order Reasons? (with Ariane Veit and Zsófia Virányi)
This is an empirical study of the kind we suggest to be most promising in our paper Animal Rationality Through Higher-Order Reasons.

On What It’s Like to Act for a Reason
I defend a more phenomenologically apt version of Davidson’s (1963) account of primary reasons as motivating reasons via the Sartrean phenomenology of our motivating states.

On Being Able to Respond to Reasons
I argue that responding to reasons as reasons is grounded in an ability to control one’s attention.

Selected Talks

Find a full list of my previous talks here.

On What It’s Like to Act for a Reason
European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, August 2026
Charles University of Prague, Annual Conference of the Hume Society, July 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