Primary Interests
Theoretical Ethics (Metaethics and Normative Ethics)
- The semantics of “ought”
- Moral responsibility
- Moral epistemology
- Non-natural moral realism
- Reasons externalism and non-fundamentalism about reasons
Secondary Interests
Metaphysics
- Philosophy of Action
- Monism
- Personal identity and personhood
Buddhist Philosophy
- esp. Theravada Buddhist meta- and normative ethics, and the related metaphysics
Philosophy of Language
- Conditionals
- The semantics-pragmatics boundary
Formal and Informal Logic
Other Areas of Interests
Applied Ethics
- Communication Ethics (media, propaganda, education, media literacy)
- Consumer ethics (consumer responsibilities, regulatory responsibilities, “dollar voting”)
- Ethics of education
Moral Psychology
- Moral development