Selected Publications 

• Wittgenstein Versus Anscombe on How to Live: Linked Philosophical Lives, Bloomsbury, 2025 

• Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: A Student’s Edition, Bloomsbury, 2021 

• Historical Dictionary of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy, second edition, Bloomsbury, 2014 

• Anscombe’s Moral Philosophy, Bloomsbury, 2011.  

• Why Be Good? A Historical Introduction to Ethics, Oxford University Press, 2007 

• Wittgenstein at His Word, Bloomsbury, 2004 

• Ethics After Anscombe: Post “Modern Moral Philosophy”, Springer, 2000  

Selected Presentations 

• “Anscombe’s Sexual Ethics,” at the von Wright-Wittgenstein Research Seminar, University of Helsinki, Finland, March 14, 2019 

• “Wittgenstein and the Value of Clarity,” at the Eighth British Wittgenstein Society Annual Conference: Wittgenstein, Ethics and Religion, Hinsley Hall, Leeds, September 7, 2016 

• “The Meaning of Human Dignity,” the plenary address at the 2015 Anscombe Forum, Neumann University, Pennsylvania, March 13, 2015 

• “The Possibility of a Social Science” public lecture given at the University of Veracruz, Xalapa, Mexico, August 11, 2014  

• “Sketches of Blurred Landscapes: Wittgenstein and Ethics” at the North American Wittgenstein Society at the Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, San Diego, California, April 17, 2014  

• “The Conception of the Architectonic Good in Anscombe’s Moral Philosophy,” at a conference on The Moral Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe at St Hugh’s College, Oxford University, September 27, 2013 

• “A Defensible Doctrine of Double Effect,” keynote address at the 70th annual meeting of the Virginia Philosophical Association, Lynchburg College, October 23 2009 

Honors 

• VMI Jackson-Hope Prize for Excellence in Published Scholarly Work 2021 

• State Council of Higher Education for Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award 2008 

• VMI Distinguished Teaching Award 2007 

• Winner of the VMI Matthew Fontaine Maury Research Award 2005 

• VMI Thomas Jefferson Teaching Award 1998