Research
Legal and Political Philosophy
Criminal Law: the law and ethics of entrapment; police ethics, including for undercover policing.
Liberal Theory: basic liberties; high liberalism; applied liberalism; liberal theory and the notion of need.
Needs
The logic, metaphysics, and epistemology of needs.
The relationship of the notion of need to those of harm and of well-being.
The role of the notion of need in legal, moral, and political theory.
Analytic Philosophy and its History
The logic, metaphysics, and epistemology of necessity and possibility.
Frege.
Logical positivism.
Essentialism.
Research grants
Entrapment, Criminal Justice, and Ethics
LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)
September 2023 - October 2026