I work primarily in analytic aesthetics. I am currently pursuing a project on the ethical criticism of violence in video games. Adopting a broadly virtue ethical account, I argue that it can be (though, not necessarily) morally wrong to enjoy violence in video games when (and only when) doing so is employed as a means to cultivate real-world immoral desires. I aim to show how this theory is best able to account for our intuitive moral responses to problematic examples of the enjoyment of video game violence and how such a theory can help us to resolve Morgan Luck’s “gamer’s dilemma”. I am also interested in the ontology of video games, the nature of “interactivity”, and feminist critiques of games and gaming culture.

In addition to my work on video games, I have also published essays on the philosophy of music and philosophy of fiction.