My main research is in applied ethics and social & political philosophy. I have a Google Scholar profile and a ThinkIR profile. I also have an academia.edu page.

Current research is in three strands:

1. territory: how can we understand what's at stake in conflicting land claims, and how can we make progress toward resolving those justly and in a way that promoted ecological sustainability or resilience?

2. solidarity: what do we owe to each other, in general and in particular contexts, when we face adversity and our only or best option is to stand together?

3. sports and games: what can we learn about human life, social life, and the basic goods of existence, by reflecting on the structure and value of sports and games?

publications

books

My second book, A Moral Theory of Solidarity (Oxford UP, 2016), won the 2017 Canadian Philosophical Association Book Prize.

My fist book, Land, Conflict, and Justice: a Political Theory of Territory (Cambridge UP, 2009), won the 2011 Canadian Philosophical Association Biennial Book Prize.

selected articles

• "The Lockean Efficiency Argument and Aboriginal Land Rights," Australasian Journal of Philosophy 78 #3 (2000), 391-404.
• "Toward a Pluralist Account of Parenthood," with Tim Bayne. Bioethics 17 #3 (2003), 221-242.
• "Justice and the Politics of Deference," Journal of Political Philosophy 13 #2 (June 2005), pp. 153-73.
• "Justice, Territory, and Natural Resources," Political Studies 60 #2 (June 2012), pp. 269-86. (Featured in Territory & Justice Symposia #1.)
• "Dynamics of Solidarity," Journal of Political Philosophy 20 #4 (2012), 365-83.
• "Attachment to Territory: Status or Achievement?" Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 42 #2 (June 2012), 101-24.
• "Floating Provisos and Sinking Islands," Journal of Applied Philosophy 29 #4 (2012), 333-43, which won the 2012 Journal of Applied Philosophy prize for the "best paper" published in volume 29 of JAP.
• "Am I My Profession's Keeper?" Bioethics 28 #1 (2014), 1-7.
• "The Priority of Solidarity to Justice," Journal of Applied Philosophy 31 #4 (2014), 420-33.
• “The Grasshopper’s Error: Or, On How Life is a Game.” Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 54 (2015), 727-46.
• "Resilience as a Political Ideal," Ethics, Policy, and Environment 19 #1 (2016), 91-107.
• “Social Movements.” Philosophy COMPASS 11 #10 (2016), 580-90.
• “Ludic Constructivism: Or, Individual Life and the Fate of Humankind.” Sports, Ethics, and Philosophy.
• "Groundwork for the Mechanics of Morals." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 50 (2020), 636-51.
• "What does Solidarity Do For Bioethics?" Journal of Medical Ethics 47 (2021), 122-28.
• "Magnificent Utopian Games" Journal of the Philosophy of Sport (2022), 1-15.