Here are some papers that I’m working on. I’d be happy to talk about or email the latest draft of any of them.

Papers on value

A paper on what it is for there to be kinds of value

Strong value pluralists believe that there are at least two irreducible kinds of value. What unifies the plurality of values into a “kind”? Traditional models of value kindhood rely on the genus-species or the determinable-determinate relation. I show that both of these models fail and develop a novel account of the unity of value. I then show how my account generates interesting results when applied to the X-First debate and to the metaphysics of multidimensional value aggregation.

Papers on aesthetic value

A paper on the Auburn View of aesthetic value

I present a challenge and a friendly amendment to James Shelley’s claim that aesthetic value is a determinate of the value determinable.

A paper on reductive theories of aesthetic value

I argue that all reductive theories of aesthetic value should share the same general form. This has two surprising implications: the question most theorists have focused on—why aesthetic value is valuable—is trivial, and any answer to the question of what demarcates the aesthetic domain is subject to far greater explanatory burdens than we once thought.