Ph.D. Candidate
My research lies at the intersection of ethics, epistemology, and social and political philosophy.
I examine the mechanisms by which people become radicalized, whether in mindset, conduct, or both. I argue that troubling social and political pathologies such as fanaticism or conspiracy theorizing involve not a deficit of rationality but an excess: namely, pursuing to the limit a misguided conception of what coherence demands.
I am also interested in how we should understand our normative domains (moral, prudential, and epistemic) and how views of normativity that deny the possibility of genuine conflict within these domains can create problems at both the individual and political level.