Hello

I’m an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Monash University. I’m the Director of Monash’s Politics, Philosophy, and Economics program.

My background is in moral, social, and political philosophy. Right now, I’m mostly thinking about structural injustice, collective responsibility, climate ethics, corporate agency, the ethics of care, and the nature of individuals’ obligations in the face of moral collective action problems. I’m interested in approaching these topics in ways that engage with politics, law, and business ethics. If you work on similar topics, I’d be delighted to hear from you.

In 2025-2027, I’m part of a team working on a project called “The Ethics of Australia’s Shared Responsibility for Pacific Climate Displacement,” funded as an Australian Research Council Discovery Project.

In 2020-2023, I completed a solo project called “Organisations’ Wrongdoing: From Metaphysics to Practice,” which was funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. Its major output was my book Organizations as Wrongdoers. My previous books are The Core of Care Ethics and Group Duties.

I’m an area editor in political philosophy at Ergo, I’m on the editorial board at Journal of Applied Philosophy, and I’m an editorial advisor at the Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Australasia. In 2020-2023, I was an associate editor at Journal of Applied Philosophy. In 2022-2023, I was an associate editor at Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. In 2016-2021, I was an associate editor at Analysis. 

I’m on the undergraduate engagement committee of the Australasian Association of Philosophy. I’m on the steering committee of the Melbourne Political, Legal, and Social Theory Network. In 2018-2024, I held leadership roles at the International Social Ontology Society. 

I came to Monash in 2022. In 2018-2021, I was an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University. In 2019, I was a Visiting Research Professor at the University of Vienna, working on the ERC-funded project The Normative and Moral Foundations of Group Agency. In 2017-18, I was a Mind Association Research Fellow. In 2013-2018, I was a Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Manchester. I got my PhD from the Australian National University in 2013. Before that, I did a Master of Public Policy and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Anthropology, both at the University of Auckland.

The photo at the top is Kohimarama Beach, which is right near where I grew up in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland), Aotearoa New Zealand. I currently live and work on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong Boon Wurrung peoples, in Narrm (Melbourne), Australia.