Publications (click links for PhilPapers entries)

Book
  • Sikh Ethics. Cambridge University Press (under contract as part of the Cambridge Elements series)

Articles and Book Chapters
  1.  Rationality Reunified. Oxford Studies in Metaethics 20 (forthcoming).
  2.  Unification without Pragmatism. Philosophical Issues (forthcoming).
  3.  Belief as Commitment to the Truth. What is Belief?, eds. Eric Schwitzgebel and Jonathan Jong (forthcoming).
  4. Does Race Best Explain Racial Discrmination? (with Daniel Wodak). Philosophers' Imprint 23 (2023).
  5. What's in an Aim? Oxford Studies in Metaethics 17, 138-165 (2022).
  6. Vice and Virtue in Sikh Ethics. The Monist 104(3), 319-336 (2021).
  7. Evidentialism doesn’t make an exception for belief. Synthese 198, 5477–5494 (2021).
  8. Anscombe on Acting for Reasons. Routledge Handbook of Practical Reason,eds. Ruth Chang and Kurt Sylvan (2020).
  9. Moral Worth, Credit, and Non-Accidentality. Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, 10, 156-181 (2020).
  10. Acting and Believing Under the Guise of Normative Reasons. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 99(2), 409-430 (2019).

Critical Responses
  1. What kind of reason does incoherence provide? Asian Journal of Philosophy (2023)
  2. New Work for a Theory of Instrumental Rationality. Analysis (2022).
  3. Rationality and Kinds of Reasons. Australasian Philosophical Review 4 (4):386-392 (2021).

Book Reviews
  1. Arvind-Pal Singh Mandair, Sikh Philosophy. Sikh Research Journal (2024).
  2. Alex Gregory, Desire as Belief. Ethics (2023).
  3. Eric Marcus, Belief, Inference, and the Self-Conscious Mind. Mind (2022).
  4. John Schwenkler, Anscombe’s Intention: A Guide. Ethics (2021).

Recognition
  • Pragmatic Encroachment and the Reliance-Involving Conception of Belief (under review).
Research Projects (click to expand)

Most of my current research fits into one of the three projects below. I'm happy to share drafts of works in progress upon request.
A Commitment-Based Theory of Authoritative Normativity
Across several published and forthcoming papers, I’ve been developing a theory of the foundations of normativity on which all authoritative norms have to do with accuracy representing the world. On my view, the internal standards of correctness for attitudes are authoritatively normative because attitudes involve a commitment to their own accurate representation of the world. Another aspect of this project involves establishing the commitment-based view as an alternative to pragmatism when it comes to unifying central normative notions, such as the rationality of actions and attitudes.
A Systematic Sikh Ethics
Sikh philosophy has been overlooked until now by Western philosophers, even those who seek to engage with non-Western philosophy. I aim to show that Sikh philosophy deserves a place at the table by reconstructing a plausible and systematic ethical theory from Sikh texts. The first part of this project was published as a paper about the Sikh theory of vice and virtue. My upcoming Cambridge Element, Sikh Ethics, builds on this work to present a more complete reconstruction and interpretation of Sikh ethical theory.
The Ethics of Racial Discrimination and Racial Categorization
I'm working on exploring a variety of ethical issues surrounding racial discrimination and racial categorization. So far, Daniel Wodak and I have published a paper on racial discrimination. I have two more papers in progress. One argues that the coarse-grained categories commonly employed in our practices of racial categorization perpetuate at least two forms of injustice: distributive injustice and hermeneutical injustice. Another argues that affirmative action policies are discriminatory only if they fail to accurately track and ameliorate existing disadvantages applicants face on the basis of race.