Research
My published research focuses on issues at the intersection of moral psychology, phenomenology, and the philosophy of emotion and embodiment. I'm especially interested in the role of emotion and embodied experience in personal agency and interpersonal relating, including issues of self-awareness, motivational intentionality, and relational mental states like empathy, compassion, shame, and love. I have presented my research at various international venues, including the American Philosophical Association, the German Society for Phenomenological Research, the Max Scheler Society of North America, and the North American Society for Early Phenomenology. Recent projects include a work-in-progress on Merleau-Ponty's account of the lived body and its bearing on recent work in interpersonal and relational approaches to psychotherapy.
Selected Publications
"Love and Power: Scheler's Sublimation of Nietzsche's Drive Psychology"
Legacies of Max Scheler, ed. Eric J. Mohr & J. Edward Hackett, Marquette University Press, 2025
“Emotion and the Ethical A Priori”
Phenomenological Research, Felix Meiner Verlag, (July 2023) [Link]
"Essence, Modality, and the Material A Priori: Scheler and Contemporary Essentialism"
Continental Philosophy Review (August 2022) Springer Nature [Link]
Selected Talks
"Emotion, Axiology, and the Formalist Prejudice: A Schelerian Case for the Affective A Priori"
University of Vienna
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Phänomenologische Forschung, (German Phenomenological Society), September 2019
Conference Details:
http://phaenomenologische-forschung.de/
“Moral Feeling and Moral-Self Awareness: The Phenomenological Role of Respect in Kant’s Moral Psychology”
American Philosophical Association
Eastern Division Meeting, Symposium, New York City, NY, January 2019
Conference Details:
"Why Fit-Based Buck-Passing Fails"
The Seventh National Meeting in Analytic Philosophy
Portuguese Society for Analytic Philosophy
University of Lisbon, Portugal, September 2018
Conference Details:
http://enfa.weebly.com/enfa-7.html
"Emotion, Axiology, and Formalism: A Schelerian Case for the Affective A Priori"
North American Society of Early Phenomenology
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh June 15th 2018
Conference Details:
https://nasepblog.ophen.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/06/NASEP-2018-Conference-Program.pdf
“Moral Feeling and Moral-Self Awareness: The Phenomenological Role of Respect in Kant’s Moral Psychology”
Seventh Annual Leuven Kant Conference
K.U. Leuven, Flanders Belgium May 21st 2018
Conference Details:
https://hiw.kuleuven.be/cmprpc/events/leuvenkantconference/index.html