I completed a degree in veterinary science in 1990 and worked in mixed veterinary practice in England for three years. During this time I learned to operate on tigers, to patch up poorly skunks, to comfort ailing camels and to autopsy fruit bats. I also learned to get up at odd hours of the night and to sound authoritative on matters about which I knew nothing. Eventually, I realized that this last skill has been the basis for many a glittering career in philosophy, so I set about the task with an MA in applied ethics from the University of Hull and an MLitt from Bristol. In 1996 I headed over the pond for my PhD in philosophy at Stanford University, completed in 2002. Two years of Greenwall Fellowship in the Bioethics Institute at Johns Hopkins followed, and I am now an assistant professor at the University of Delaware. My current philosophical work centers on bioethics, with interests also in ethical theory, philosophy of biology and philosophy of language / metaphysics.

Though employed by the State of Delaware (more of a franchise than a state really), I live in Philadelphia with the artist, Talia Greene. This enables us to maximize both commute and tax burden.