Since April 2009, I am "Assistent" (non-tenured lecturer) at the Chair for Practical Philosophy at the University of Regensburg. Before coming here, I have held appointments at the universities of Leipzig, Saarbrücken, Glasgow, Witten/Herdecke and Konstanz. I teach and  do research in ethics, philosophy of the social sciences, and related areas.


I completed my PhD in philosophy at the London School of Economics in 2005 (under the supervision of Nancy Cartwright), and have held some more temporary positions at the Universities of Konstanz, Glasgow, and Witten/Herdecke since then. In the last few semesters I have taught courses on causality, logic, metaethics, the history of moral philosophy, equality, the philosophy of social science, and basic income; the latter three were at MA level.


My doctoral dissertation was on John Stuart Mill. Its best parts on Mill's distinction between quality and quantity of pleasures, and some of it is published in the Philosophical Quarterly (available on my publications page). Some of the other parts are also quite good, though. I have written on several other Millian themes, and will continue to do so in the near future (topics include the distinction between happiness and contentment, and Mill's footnote on Davies), and on decision theory (Newcomb's Problem).

My academic page at Regensburg is here.

The picture is from 2001 or so. I have aged since.

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Last updated: 27 April 09.