I am Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure-track) at the University of Lethbridge (Canada), where I run the Applied Ethics Lab. I am also a Research Fellow in the Critical Thinking and Citizen Engagement Lab (CTCE) and an Affiliate Faculty member of the Centre for Feminist Research (CFR).
My current research is in biomedical ethics and the philosophy of artificial intelligence.
I am working on a book - The MAiD Question: Understanding Canada’s Assisted Dying Debate [under contract with McGill-Queen’s University Press]. Other recent work in this area includes: an op-ed on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) and mental illness, published in the Calgary Herald; a briefing to AMAD (special joint committee on MAiD ); a response to Isabel Grant’s disability critique of Track 2 MAiD.
With Martina Orlandi (Trent University), I recently co-founded the Canadian Association for the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence / Association canadienne pour la philosophie l’intelligence artificielle (CAPAI/ACPIA). To learn more, visit our website.
My longstand research program focuses on the nature of judgment as a capacity of the mind across the various spheres of human life—drawing on Kant and the Kantian tradition (including the thought of Hannah Arendt). My work has been published in The British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Inquiry, Kant-Studien, Kantian Review, The Journal of Modern Philosophy, and The Southern Journal of Philosophy.
I am editing a forthcoming volume on Hannah Arendt’s Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy, part of a new series from De Gruyter Brill called ‘Works of Philosophy and Their Reception’. To learn more, and read the initial batch of entries (online first), click here!
I received my PhD from the Department of Philosophy at McGill University in 2020. From 2022-2024, I was the Klemens von Klemperer Postdoctoral Fellow in the Hannah Arendt Center (HAC) for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, where I also taught in the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI). While at Bard, I launched the annual De Gruyter Arendt lecture series.
Before this, I was Academic Programs Officer (2020-2022) in the office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS) at McGill, where I developed a suite of new interdisciplinary M.A. programs and graduate teaching training programs. Since then, I have also served as an Academic Associate in GPS, consulting on matters related to curriculum design and accreditation.