I am Director of Georgetown's Kennedy Institute of Ethics and an Associate Professor in Georgetown's Philosophy Department.
I did my graduate training at Oxford, Princeton, and Berkeley. I have been visiting faculty at the Dept. of Bioethics at the NIH and at Johns Hopkins University.
My research interests all focus on ethics, from the very applied to the very abstract. In applied ethics, I am most interested in bioethics, including law and public policy issues. On this, I bring to bear two perspectives that are often thought to be in deep conflict— analytic philosophy and feminist theory.
At the most abstract level, I am interested in the metaphysics and epistemology of ethics—in particular, whether and in what sense moral claims can be said to be objective and again whether and in what sense these claims can be captured in law-like generalizations.
The writings and projects links at the top give a more complete summary of my work.
