Published Articles and Chapters

• Longtermism, Technology, and Well-Being, Utilitas (2026)

• None Above or Below, Ethics, Vol. 135(4), pp. 732-757 (2025)

• Power Inversion Democracy, in Extreme Philosophy (Stephen Hetherington, ed., Routledge, 2024), pp. 250-266.

• Legal Epistemology: Systems of Legal Procedure as Holistic Epistemic Systems, in the Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology (Jennifer Lackey and Aidan McGlynn, eds., 2024).

• Law and Violence, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Volume 22(1), pp. 1-34 (2022).

• Ethics in Place and Time: Introducing Wub-e-ke-niew’s We Have the Right to Exist: A Translation of Aboriginal Indigenous Thought, in Neglected Classics Volume 2 (ed. by Eric Schliesser, Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. 261-285.

• Doubt and the Revolutionary, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Volume 45, pp. 423-456 (2021). 

• The Interested Expert Problem and the Epistemology of Juries, Episteme, 18(3), pp. 428-452 (2021).

• The Epistemology of Consent, in Applied Epistemology (ed. by Jennifer Lackey, Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. 348-388.

• The Epistemic Pathologies of Elections and the Epistemic Promise of Lottocracy, in Political Epistemology (ed. by Elizabeth Edenberg and Michael Hannon, Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. 166-192.

• The Promise and Peril of Single-Issue Legislatures, Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 18, pp. 837-870 (2021).

• The Epistemic Case for Non-Electoral Forms of Democracy, in Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology (ed. by Michael Hannon and Jeroen de Ridder, Routledge, 2021), pp. 419-429.

• A Theory of Political Expertise, in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Skill and Expertise (ed. by Ellen Fridland and Carlotta Pavese, 2020), pp. 445-459.

• Children, Political Power, and Punishment, The Journal of Ethics, 24:3, pp. 269-280 (2020).

• Broad cross-national public support for accelerated COVID-19 vaccine trial designs, with David Broockman, Joshua Kalla et al., Vaccine (2020)

• Defense and Ignorance: War, Secrecy, and the Possibility of Popular Sovereignty, in Sovereignty and the New Executive Authority (ed. by Claire Finkelstein & Michael Skerker, Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 309-344.

• Political Functionalism and the Importance of Social Facts, in Political Utopias (ed. by Kevin Vallier and Michael Weber, Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 127-150.

• Living with Ignorance in a World of Experts, in Perspectives on Ignorance from Moral and Social Philosophy (ed. by Rik Peels, Routledge, 2017), pp. 156-185.

• Intellectual Difficulty and Moral Responsibility, in Responsibility: The Epistemic Condition (ed. by Jan Willem Wieland & Philip Robichaud, Oxford Univ. Press, 2017), pp. 199-218.

• Appropriately Using People Merely as a Means, Criminal Law and Philosophy, Vol. 10(4), 777-94 (2016)

• Unexcused Reasonable Mistakes:  Can the Case for Not Excusing Mistakes of Law be Supported by the Case for Not Excusing Mistakes of Morality?, Legal Theory, Vol. 21, pp. 86-99 (2015)

• Deliberation, Responsibility, and Excusing Mistakes of Law, Jurisprudence, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 81-94 (2015)

• On Marie Collins Swabey's "Publicity and Measurement," Ethics, Vol. 125, pp. 555-558 (2015)

• Against Elections: The Lottocratic Alternative, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol. 42, pp. 135-178 (2014)

• Coercion, Political Accountability, and Voter Ignorance: The Mistaken Medicaid Expansion Ruling in NFIB v. Sebelius, Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 27, pp. 199-214 (2013)

• Lawyers, Context, and Legitimacy: A New Theory of Legal Ethics, Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Vol. 25, pp. 107-164 (2012)

• The Paradox of Voting and the Ethics of Political Representation, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol. 38, pp. 272-306 (2010)

• Don’t Know, Don’t Kill:  Moral Ignorance, Culpability, and Caution, Philosophical Studies, Vol. 136, pp. 59-97 (2007)

Shorter Writing

• Review of David J. Gunkel, Person, Thing, Robot: A Moral and Legal Ontology for the Twenty-First Century and Beyond, Critical AI (October 2025)

• Democracy divides us, iai News (2021)

• Don't stop thinking about tomorrow, Journal of Medical Ethics (2021)

• A Brief History of a New Course at Rutgers University: Philosophy 366—African, Latin American, and Native American Philosophy, APA Newsletter on Native American and Indigenous Philosophy, Vol. 17, 2 (2018) 

• Conference Report: The Second Annual Latinx Philosophy Conference, APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy, Vol. 17, 1 (2017) (with Edgar Valdez and Stephanie Rivera Berruz)

• Review of Michael S. Pardo and Dennis Patterson, Minds, Brains, and Law: The Conceptual Foundations of Law and Neuroscience, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (May 2014)

• The Lottocracy, Aeon (January 2014)

Profession of Philosophy

• To Be a Department of Philosophy, guest post on Daily Nous (May 2022)

• Advice for Applying to PhD Programs in Philosophy, guest post on Daily Nous (October 2021)

• Racial and Ethnic Diversity of Authors in Four Leading Moral and Political Philosophy Journals

Writing for a General Audience

• The Year of COVID: Much will never be the same, Newark Star-Ledger (March 7, 2021)

• Moral Deplorables or Epistemic Reformables?, blog post as part of the Philosophers On the 2020 Election on Daily Nous (November 2020)

• The traits Trump and Castro share, Newark Star-Ledger (October 28, 2020)

• Is it fair to gamble with other people's lives during a pandemic? Newark Star-Ledger (March 23, 2020)

• Bernie, don't defend Castro, not even a little, Newark Star-Ledger (February 29, 2020)

• Let's get rid of elections and choose our political leaders by lottery, Newark Star-Ledger (March 10, 2019)

• Dividing the U.S., blog post as part of the Philosophers On the U.S. 2016 Election on Daily Nous (November 2016)

• Update the 'Old Technology' of Elections, blog post as part of the Philosophers On the 2016 U.S. Presidential Race on Daily Nous (March 2016)

• African Philosophy, slides from an introductory-level talk at Rutgers, (October 2017)