Curriculum Vitae

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Academic Employment

Resident Fellow, United States Naval Academy, Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership (2021-Present)
Assistant Professor, University of Twente, Department of Philosophy (2018-2022)
Assistant Professor, National University Singapore, Department of Political Science and Global Studies Program (2015-2018)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, McCoy Center for Ethics in Society (2013-2015)

Education

University of Washington, Seattle, WA (2008-2013)
- PhD in Philosophy, 2013
- MA in Philosophy, 2010
- Dissertation (Chair: Michael Blake): A Leap Into Darkness: Domination and the Normative Structure of International Politics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (2005-2008)
- MA in Philosophy, 2007
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2000-2004)
- A.B. (magna cum laude), 2004
- Honors Thesis (Advisor: T.M. Scanlon): Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere: A Qualified Defense of Rawls's Law of Peoples

Areas of Specialization

Social and Political Philosophy, Normative Ethics, Environmental Ethics (especially climate change and intergenerational justice), Political Philosophy of Technology

Areas of Competence

Philosophy of Law, Biomedical Ethics, History of Early Modern Philosophy (especially moral and political)

Publications

Peer Reviewed Articles

"Who May Geoengineer: Global Domination, Revolution, and Solar Radiation Management," Global Justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric (Forthcoming 2020) - Winner, Jonathan Trejo-Mathys Essay Prize, Global Justice Network
"A Neo-Republican Theory of Just State Surveillance," Moral Philosophy and Politics (Forthcoming, 2020)
"Sovereignty and Non-Domination: Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems as Counter-Insurgency Tool," Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence (Forthcoming in a special issue on military technology, 2020)
"Legitimacy and Non-Domination in Solar Radiation Management Research," Ethics, Policy, and the Environment 21, no 3, pp. 341-361 (2019)
"A Normative Foundation for Statism," Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy (Forthcoming 2020) https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2019.1567207

"Just Research into Killer Robots," Ethics and Information Technology 21, no 4. pp. 281-293 (2019)

"Political Revolution as Moral Risk," The Monist 101, no. 2, pp. 199-215 (2018)

"Cyberattacks as Casus Belli: A Sovereignty Based Account," Journal of Applied Philosophy 35, no. 2, pp. 222-241 (2018)

"Redirecting Threats, the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing, and the Special Wrongness of Solar Radiation Management," Ethics, Policy, and the Environment 17, no. 2, pp. 143-146 (2014)

"The Intergenerational Storm: Dilemma or Domination," Philosophy and Public Issues 3, no. 1, pp. 207-244 (2013)

"Constitutivism or Instrumentalism: A Dilemma for Accounts of Transnational Political Authority," Transnational Legal Theory 4, no. 3, pp. 374-395 (2013)

Book Chapters

"Rawls and Animals: A Defense," in John Rawls: Debating the Major Questions, Oxford University Press (2020)

"A Human Rights Framework for Climate Engineering: A Response to the Limitations of Cost-Benefit Analysis," under contract and accepted for Climate Geoengineering: Law and Governance (edited by Wil Burns), Springer Press (Forthcoming, 2021)

"Against Voting Obligations," in Ethics, Left and Right (edited by Bob Fischer), Oxford University Press (2019)

"Why Bad Votes Can Nonetheless Be Cast and Why Bad Voters May Cast Them," Political Ethics, edited by Emily Crookston, David Killoren, and Jonathan Trerise, Routledge (2017)

"Towards a Richer Account of Cyberharm: The Value of Self-Determination in the Context of Cyberwarfare," in Ethics and Policies for Cyber Operations, edited by Mariarosaria Taddeo and Ludovica Glorioso, Philosophical Studies Series, Springer (2017)

"International Domination and a Global Climate Treaty" in The Ethics of Climate Governance, edited by Catriona McKinnon and Aaron Maltais, Rowan and Littlefield Press (2015)

"Domination and the Ethics of Solar Radiation Management" in Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management (ed. Christopher Preston), Lexington Press (2012)

Encyclopedia Articles

"International Distributive Justice," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2013, Substantial Revision in 2020)

Book Reviews

Review of Climate Engineering: A Normative Perspective by Daniel Callies in Environmental Ethics (Forthcoming, 2020)

Review of Political Utopias: Contemporary Debates edited by Michael Weber and Kevin Vallier in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2018)

Review of Authorities: Conflicts, Cooperation, and Transnational Legal Theory by Nicole Roughan in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2014)

Review of Justice in a Globalized World: A Normative Framework by Laura Valentini in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 17, no. 3 (2014)

Grants and Honors

Grants

TechEthos Horizon 2020 Grant (4 million Euros, Work Package Leader)

Research

Writing Semester Fellowship, National University Singapore, 2017
Research Grant, National University Singapore, 2016-2019
Graduate Fellowship, Stanford Center for International Conflict and Negotiation, Stanford University, 2014-2015
Research Assistantship, Program on Values in Society at the University of Washington, 2011-2012
Summer Research Fellowship, Nanotechnology and Society Research Group, Northeastern University, Summer 2011
Harvard College Research Project Grant, 2003

Teaching

Best English Language Lecturer, Management Society and Technology, University of Twente (2019)
Dean's List for Exceptional Instructors, University of Washington, 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2012-2013
Teacher of the Year, Seattle Kaplan Center, 2010-2011
Teaching Award, Philosophy Department, University of Washington, 2009-2010
Elite Teacher Status, Seattle Kaplan Center, 2009 and 2010
List of those Teachers Ranked as Excellent, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Illinois, Fall 2005 and Fall 2006

Supervision and Teaching

Supervision - PhD Level

Head Supervisor (2016-2018): Mary Ann Joy Robles, National University Singapore, Department of Political Science
Daily Supervisor (2019-Present): Karolina Kudlek, University of Twente, Department of Philosophy
Third Supervisor (2020-Present): Rosalie Waelen, University of Twente, Department of Philosophy
External Supervisor (2020-Present): Benjamin Hofbauer, Gravitation Project, Technical University Delft, Department of Values, Technology, and Innovation

Instructor (University of Twente only, prior educational experience available on request)
- Society, Politics, and Technology (Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Society), 2018-2019 and 2019-2020
- Good Technology for Users and Society (Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Society), 2019-2020
- Academic Integrity and Ethics Seminar (The Graduate School), 2018-2019 and 2019-2020
- The Privacy Paradox (Communication Science), 2018-2019 and 2019-2020
- Research and Ethics (Management, Society, and Technology), 2018-2019 and 2019-2020
- Moral Leadership (Management, Society, and Technology), 2018-2019 and 2019-2020
- Ethical Reflection (Computer Science, Business and Information Technology), 2018-2019 and 2019-2020
- Philosophical Reflection (Computer Science, Business and Information Technology), 2018-2019 and 2019-2020

Other Teaching Experience

Ethics Consultant for course instructor at Stanford
- Computer Science, Ethics, and Public Policy, Winter 2014
Secondary Education
- Harvard Graduate School of Education Undergraduate Teacher Education Program, Secondary Certification in Social Studies, Massachusetts and Illinois

Select Presentations

"An Institutionalist Solution to the Responsibility Problem in Modern Warfare," MANCEPT, University of Manchester (September 2018); University of Zurich Workshop (May 2019); Rocky Mountain Ethics Conference (August 2019); OZSW Annual Conference (November 2020), Amsterdam, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, New Orleans (March 2020), University of Leiden Colloquium Series on Moral and Political Philosophy (April 2020)
"Who May Geoengineer: Dirty Hands, Global Justice, and Supreme Emergency" Braga Conference on Social and Political Philosophy, Minho University (June 2018); Conference on Philosophy and Social Science, Prague (May 2019); MANCEPT (September 2019); 4TU Ethics Conference, Eindhoven (November 2019)
"The Relational Microfoundations of the Right to Exclude: Resolving Two Problems for the Immigration Restrictionist," Conference on Philosophy and Social Science, Institute of Philosophy, Prague (May 2018)
"Constructing Intergenerational Justice as Intergenerational Non-Domination," Political Theory Workshop Humboldt University, Berlin (May 2018); Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm (Invited, December 2017); Poster Session, Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder (August 2017); EIPE, Rotterdam (April 2019)
"The Distribution of Responsibility for Jus in Bello Across the Defense-Industrial Complex: The Case of Computer Simulations in Military Procurement," Asia-Pacific Chapter of the International Society for Military Ethics, Canberra (Invited, November 2017)
"Legitimacy and Non-Domination in SRM Research," Conference on Legitimacy and Geoengineering, University of Washington, Seattle (November 2017)
"Social Movements and Climate Justice from the Periphery," convener and chair, Climate Engineering Conference 2017, Berlin (October 2017)
"Our Duties to Climate Refugees," 10th Annual Conference on Applied Ethics, Hokkaido University (October 2016)
"Who May Geoengineer: Global Domination, Revolution, and Solar Radiation Management," 10th Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado-Boulder (August 2016)
"Moral Risk, Dirty Hands, and International Revolution: The Cases of Nuremberg, the Comintern, and Kosovo," North American Society for Social Philosophy, Carleton University (July 2016)
"Just Killer Robots," Conference on Moral Technologies, Zurich University (July 2016)
"Who May Geoengineer: Global Domination, Revolution, and Solar Radiation Management," Rabinowitz Symposium on Climate Ethics, University of Washington-Seattle (May, 2016)

Service

Ethics Committee, BMS, University of Twente
4TU Ethics Management Team, Member
Organizer, Flemish-Dutch Day of Philosophy, February 2020
Member, Colloquium Committee, University of Twente
Coach, University of Twente Ice Hockey Team
Referee, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Philosophical Studies, European Journal of Political Theory, Journal of Politics, Social Theory and Practice, Diametros, Journal of Practical Ethics, Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Social Justice Research, Ethics and Information Technology, Environmental Values, Ethical Perspectives, Ethics, Policy, and the Environment, Environmental Politics, and Environmental Ethics
Manuscript Reviewer, Bloomsburg/Continuum, Oxford University Press

References

Available on request.