His research and teaching interests include the intersections of ethics/meta-ethics/value theory and epistemology; critical thinking in ethics; science and values; ethical theory; ethics and animals; abortion, environmental ethics and other topics in bioethics and applied ethics. His publications include “The Harmful, Nontherapeutic Use of Animals in Research Is Morally Wrong,” American Journal of the Medical Sciences, October 2011, Volume 342, Issue 4, pp 297-304; “Reasonable Humans and Animals: An Argument for Vegetarianism,” Between the Species, Fall 2008; and “An Argument for Veganism,” with Dan Hooley.