Religious Schooling

With Matthew Clayton and Andrew Mason (both University of Warwick), I am writing a book to be called something like Faith Schools: Principles and Policies. Recent outputs from this project, funded by the Spencer Foundation, are How To Regulate Faith Schools, The Political Morality of School Composition, and Parents' Rights, Children’s Religion: A Familial Relationship Goods Approach.

Partiality and Close Relationships

With Anca Gheaus (Central European University), I am working on whether we have sui generis duties to act partially in favour of those particular others with whom we have close relationships, or to whom we are attached. Our view is that any such duties are derivative, not sui generis, and that such relationships or attachments constitute distinctive grounds for permissions, not duties, to act partially.

Legitimate Filial Partiality

As societies age, the question of what the elderly are owed, and by whom, is likely to become increasingly salient. What is the proper division of responsibility as between the state, families, and individuals themselves? In previous work, with Harry Brighouse, I have explored the grounds and limits of parental partiality towards their children. I am now thinking about the implications of our familial relationship goods approach for the ways in which - and the extent to which - adult children may act partially in favour of their parents.