I am the Phyllis W. Nicholas Director of the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University. I am also an associate professor in the DePauw philosophy department. Before that I was a graduate student at UMass, Amherst, and an undergraduate at Washington State University. I also studied briefly as an undergraduate at the University of Reading.

Much of my early research focused on traditional and formal epistemology. Currently, I am interested in exploring connections between epistemology and ethics. My recent work draws on analogies with consequentialist ethical theories to think about cases of group inquiry. I am also interested in ethics pedagogy, especially in how to integrate ethics education throughout K-12 and university curricula.

Scholarly Publications:

‘Group Epistemic Value’ [2022] Philosophical Studies, 179, 65-92.

‘Reliable Group Belief’ [2021] Synthese, 198, 5653-5677.

‘Epistemic Free-Riding’ [2018] in Epistemic Consequentialism, Ahlstrom-Vij & Dunn (eds.), Oxford University Press.

‘Virtual Worlds and Moral Evaluation’, [2012], Ethics and Information Technology, 14, 255-165.