About
I’m currently working on a book about automation, unemployment, and basic incomes, with the working title, The Road to Utopia: Automation, Justice, and How to Support Everyone When AI and Robots Create a Post-Work World. This book is under submission to a publishing house; I’ll update this if they accept it. The Road to Utopia blog draws upon this material.
My first book, New Methuselahs: The Ethics of Life Extension (MIT Press 2017), was funded by a Templeton Foundation grant, and concerned a variety of issues raised by slowing or halting human aging, including whether extended life is a good life, whether justice requires giving equal access to life extension for everyone (and what to do if we can’t), and the possibility that widespread use of life extension may lead to overpopulation.
I’ve edited two anthologies on ethics and published over 20 papers on ethics and applied ethics, as well as contributing two chapters to applied ethics handbooks published by Oxford and Cambridge presses.
Before getting my Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Washington, I earned a law degree from the New York University School of Law and practiced law for private firms in Idaho and Washington State over a period of 17 years. However, while practicing law I began to sneak away from the office once a week and take graduate philosophy courses for fun. Eventually I made the transition to philosophy professor. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, writing this blog, studying film, and travel, having visited 35 countries and lived in several of them. My favorite thing is to write while I’m traveling, sitting in a coffee shop on some other continent.
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