Research Interests

My research interests are wide ranging, including (but not limited to) some of these topics and subtopics below:

• Legal, moral, and political philosophy

  • Social cooperation

  • Criminal justice

  • The nature of law

  • Morality and law

  • Legal processes

  • Rights and duties

  • Law and economics

  • Canon law

• Economics

  • Law and economics

  • Institutional economics

  • Public choice

  • Political economy

• Metaphysics

  • Ontology of economics

  • Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas

  • Hylomorphism

  • Social ontology

• Aesthetics

  • Ontology of beauty

  • Aesthetic experience

  • Art history

  • Art criticism

• Epistemology, phenomenology, and philosophy of mind

  • Justification

  • Realism and knowledge

  • Direct realism

  • Imagination

  • Intersubjectivity

  • Existential experiences