I am an Assistant Professor of philosophy at Harvard University. From 2020-22, I was at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. I received my Ph.D. from MIT in 2019.

My research focuses on the ethics of love and interpersonal relationships, which, I argue, is pretty much all of ethics. I have projects in honesty and discretion, partiality, consent, normative powers more broadly, paying it forward, and forgiveness. I also have interests in love and the special permissions and obligations it can bring. And, perhaps more strangely, I explore the idea that love of all, agape, can serve as a (even the) central ideal of practical reasoning.

You can reach me at pqwhite [at] fas [dot] harvard [dot] edu.

Darwall Symposium handout here. 

The full text of my remarks for the Author Meets Critics session on Laura Valentini's Morality and Socially Constructed Norms​ is available here; handout here.