My research focuses on topics at the intersection of moral and legal cognition, ideological entrenchment, and social, economic, and democratic justice. Simply put, I focus on topics that revolve around the foundations of “social democracy.” I am mainly interested in two questions: How are universal claims in morality and jurisprudence possible if our beliefs about how we ought to live together are externally shaped by social structures that have historically produced the very injustices we seek to overcome? And how ought democratic states and their institutions to be organized if they are meant to enable a genuine break with entrenched beliefs? These questions have gained urgency in light of the increasingly visible effects of unequal societies and the limits of our political institutions in addressing such structural issues. In my work, I turn to Kant, the post-Kantian, and the neo-Kantian tradition, where we find fruitful frameworks to answer these questions.
I also work out a hermeneutical framework for teaching the history philosophy. The main question I pursue in this regard is the following: Given that philosophers always philosophize within a specific value context that we later come to regard as entrenched, how can we teach texts from the past without distorting their meaning or perpetuating the biases canonical authors endorsed?
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Currently, I am collaborating with Lea Ypi to examine left-Kantian currents at the beginning of the twentieth century. Beyond my research in political theory, I am also interested in teaching methods that help broaden and diversify philosophical canons. I am also an associate editor of Kantian Review, and an APA committee member of Inclusion in the Profession.
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