I completed a degree in veterinary science Bristol University 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 Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins followed, and I am now an associate professor at the University of Delaware.

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