Moral philosophers have spent much of the past fifty years studying how to aggregate goods and bads. I argue we won’t find the answers we are looking for. This has important implications for the nature of moral reasoning and metaethics. Relevant papers below. Email me for pre-prints of unpublished articles.
- New Wave Lexical Totalism has a Negativity Problem.
Paper under review
A paper about why contemporary violations of ‘continuity’ in welfare orderings don’t resolve axiological paradoxes. - A New Case for Moral Skepticism: The Argument from Paradox
Journal of Philosophy 2026.
My main paper on this subject. I argue that the axiological paradoxes support a strong form of moral scepticism. - Why Moral Paradoxes Support Error Theory
Journal of Philosophy 2023.
I argue that the existence of moral paradoxes provides a defence against the charge that moral error theories are implausible. - A New Argument for Moral Error Theory
Nous 2022.
Do the paradoxes of axiology support moral error theory? I explore the routes to this conclusion. - What are Paradoxes?
Journal of the American Philosophical Association (2023).
A paper about the nature of paradoxes. - Does the Repugnant Conclusion Have Any Probative Force?
Philosophical Studies (2017).
An early paper about one of the paradoxical implications of simple aggregation of goods.
