My research explores central ancient Greek values and how they bear on issues in ethics and aesthetics. I’m currently working on a monograph on Plato’s concept of the kalon (beautiful), Virtues of Appearance: Plato and the Pursuit of Beauty, and related pieces on shame, honour, and admiration in antiquity. I am also interested in philosophical method and the history of ethics and aesthetics, including in medieval, early modern, and contemporary philosophy. But there is much I enjoy reading and discussing.

Select Publications

“Of Pots and Plato’s Aesthetics”, forthcoming in The British Journal of Aesthetics

“Ancient Greek Recognition? Homer, Plato, and the Struggle for Honor”, forthcoming in The Philosophy of Recognition, eds. Thomas Khurana and Matthew Congdon

“Ideas of Beauty: Ideals of Character from Homer to Augustine”, forthcoming in A Cultural History of Beauty in Antiquity, ed. Kelly Olson

"“Plato and the Dangerous Pleasures of Poikilia”, The Classical Quarterly (2021)

“The Guise of the Beautiful: Symp. 204d ff.”, Phronesis (2020)

Review of A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics, eds. Destrée and Murray, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (2019)

“Beauty Before the Eyes of Others”, Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics (2016)