Research

​My research investigates free will and its relation to morality in classical German philosophy. I focus primarily on Immanuel Kant and Karl Leonhard Reinhold. 

My current work examines  the concept of obligation in German Philosophy after Christian Wolff, particularly in Kant. I am especially interested in the relation between free will, moral obligation, and moral imputability in Kant and in the reception of Kant's practical philosophy in the late 1780s and 1790s. I am co-editor of Christian Wolff's German Ethics: New Essays (OUP 2024).

In addition to these research interests, I translate philosophical texts from German to English. I am currently translating Reinhold's Letters on the Kantian Philosophy Volume II and am co-editor/co-translator of Kant's Early Critics on Freedom of the Will  (CUP 2022). The volume comprises texts from minor figures in the reception of Kant's theory of free will (e.g. J.A.H. Ulrich, C.C.E. Schmid, L.H. Jakob, J.H. Abicht, et al).