Research interests
History of moral and political thought, early modern natural law, Samuel Pufendorf’s moral and political thought, history of sociability, history of recognition and esteem, theories of passions in early modern philosophy
 

Selected bibliography concerning Natural law

• Books

Pufendorf’s Theory of Sociability: Passions, Habits and Social Order (Springer Cham, 2018)

• Articles

(with Tim Stuart-Buttle) 'Beyond Justice: Pufendorf and Locke on the Desire for Esteem' in Political Theory (online first), 2018

(with Aino Lahdenranta) 'Smithian Sentimentalism Anticipated: Pufendorf on the Desire for Esteem' in Journal of Scottish Philosophy 16, 1 (2018): p. 19–37.

Pufendorf on Passions and Sociability in Journal of the History of Ideas, 77, 3 (2016), p. 423–444.

• Encyclopedia Entries

'Sociability' in Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, ed. Dana Jalobeanu and Charles T. Wolfe (Springer, 2018).

(with Kari Saastamoinen) 'Natural Law' in Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, ed. Dana Jalobeanu and Charles T. Wolfe (Springer, 2018).

'Samuel von Pufendorf' in Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, ed. Dana Jalobeanu and Charles T. Wolfe (Springer, 2018).