Research

I am currently working on a number of projects concerning the rationality of romantic love, emotions, sentiments, syndromes, and implicit biases as well as emotions and social justice. I am also interested in neo-sentimentalism as a framework for thinking about values.

Publications

Forthcoming. “Emotional Injustice” with Gen Eickers and Jesse PrinzErgo.

2021 (actual release date 2024). “When is Jealousy Appropriate?”. Dialectica. 75 (3): 1–28. https://doi.org/10.48106/dial.v75.i3.02

2023. “Pansexuality: A Closer Look at Sexual Orientation.” Philosophies 8 (4): 60. https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies8040060.

2022. “Ronnie de Sousa, French Philosopher?” In A Tribute to Ronald de Sousa, edited by Julien A. Deonna, Christine Tappolet, and Fabrice Teroni. https://www.unige.ch/cisa/related-sites/ronald-de-sousa/.

2022. “Vices of Friendship” with Berit Brogaard. In A. Pismenny & B. Brogaard (Eds.), The Moral Psychology of Love. (pp. 231–253). Rowman and Littlefield

2022. “The Moral Psychology of Love, or How to Think about Love” with Berit Brogaard. In A. Pismenny & B. Brogaard (Eds.), The Moral Psychology of Love. (pp. 1–10). Rowman and Littlefield

2022. “Boredom and Its Values”: Commentary on Propelled: How Boredom, Frustration, and Anticipation Lead Us to the Good Life by Andreas Elpidorou, Journal of Philosophy of Emotion 3(2): 27–34. https://doi.org/10.33497/2021.winter.4

2021. “The Amorality of Romantic Love”. In R. Fedock, M. Kühler, and R. Rosenhagen (Eds.), Love, Justice, and Autonomy: Philosophical Perspectives (pp. 23-42). Routledge

2018. “The erotic as a value”. (Published in French as “L’Érotisme”. In English here.) with Ronald de Sousa. In J. Deonna, & E. Tieffenbach (Eds.), A Small Treatise on Values (Petit Traité des Valeurs) (pp. 132-139). Paris: Editions d’Ithaque

2017. “Is love an emotion?” with Jesse Prinz. In C. Grau & A. Smuts (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook Of Philosophy Of Love. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press 

Edited Book

2022. The Moral Psychology of Love, co-edited with Berit Brogaard as part of the Moral Psychology of Emotions series by Mark Alfano, Rowman & Littlefield

Book Reviews

2020. Review of The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy. Martin, A. M. (2019). Routledge. Metapsychology Online Reviews 24(20).

Doctoral Dissertation

The Syndrome of Romantic Love (2018) New York: City University of New York, The Graduate Center. Advisor: Jesse Prinz