Research

My research focuses mostly on personal relationships and the goods that these relationships make available to us. In my PhD thesis, I was concerned with understanding what may compromise access to various relationship goods, or cause inequalities in their distribution. Additionally, I considered the role that the state, society and individuals might play in remedying situations of difficult or unequal access. In doing so, I also focused on the ways in which our personal relationships are affected by wider social phenomena like social norms and stereotypes and moral phenomena like leniency.

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Out of my PhD came four papers on:

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• Social norms and the unequal distribution of parental love

• The value of leniency in loving relationships

• Friendship with people with serious moral vices

• The moral relevance of children's being children