Publications

Journal Articles

‘Liminal Bioethics for Liminal Statuses: A New Method for Analysing Novel Biological Entities’. Bioethics 40, no. 5 (2026): 453–62. (with Ilina Singh)

‘Concept-formation and deep disagreements in theoretical and practical reasoning’. Synthese 205, article no. 58 (2025).

‘Solidarity and Subsidiarity as Principles for Public Health Ethics’. National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 22, no. 2 (2022): 221–9.

‘Anscombe’s Moral Epistemology and the Relevance of Wittgenstein’s Anti-Scepticism’. Enrahonar 64 (2020): 81–100.

‘Euthanasia, Withdrawing Treatment and the Concept of Intention’. Law & Justice 182 (2019): 7–24.

Book Chapters

‘”Banishing ethics totally from our minds”: Anscombe on Connatural Moral Knowledge’. In Elizabeth Anscombe and the Christian Intellectual Tradition, edited by Marshall Bierson and Joshua Stuchlik (book manuscript under review).

‘Therapy, Enhancement and the Social Model of Disability’. In Bioethics and the Posthumanities, edited by Danielle Sands, pp. 15–24. Abingdon: Routledge, 2022.

‘The Rational Body: A Thomistic perspective on parenthood and posthumanism’. In The Ethics of Generating Posthumans: Philosophical and Theological Reflections, edited by Calum MacKellar and Trevor Stammers, pp. 145–58. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Book Reviews

Wittgenstein: The Senses of Use. Sandra Laugier. The Review of Metaphysics (forthcoming).

Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason. Pierre Manent. The New Bioethics 30, no. 2 (2024): 165–9.

Samaritanus Bonus: On the Care of Persons in the Critical and Terminal Phases of Life. Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Law & Justice 187 (2021): 141–5.

Selected Academic Presentations

‘Anscombe and Connatural Knowledge’, Facultés Loyola Paris, Aprés-midi d’étude sur Elizabeth Anscombe (May 2026)

‘Newman, Wittgenstein, and the Search for Moral Objectivity’, guest lecture at the International Theological Institute, Austria (Oct 2025)

‘Brain death and the human organism: A response to Jason Eberl’, Aquinas Institute seminar on ‘What is the True Death of a Human Being?’, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford (Oct 2025)

‘Anscombe and the Non-ontological Argument’, Oriel College, Oxford, philosophy of religion work-in-progress seminar (May 2025)

‘Cell lines, genomics, and biobanking ethics’, seminar for the Healthy Engagement in Autism Research Dialogue (HEARD) group of the Broad Institute, Harvard University and the Autism Science Foundation (Mar 2025)

‘Can moral values be taught?’, guest seminar for the Centre for Philosophy of Education, University College London (May 2024)

‘Wittgenstein on the practical foundations of logic’, paper for the CENTRAL Network conference ‘Wittgenstein and Hegel on the Foundations of Logic’, University of Vienna (Aug 2023)

‘Wittgenstein on pre-linguistic reactions and empirical propositions’, guest lecture at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Vienna (Feb 2023)

‘The Tractatus and On Certainty: Bookending Wittgenstein’s Legacy’, conference on ‘The Tractatus at 100 years’ organised by the Nordic Wittgenstein Society and the University of Bergen, in Skjolden, Norway (May 2022)