Max mainly works metaethics, normative ethics and moral psychology, but he also has interests in rationality, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind, and in David Hume, Adam Smith and the American Pragmatists.
He will teach modules on Ethics and Moral Theory and Moral Psychology.
Before coming to Sheffield, Max studied for his BA and MPhil at the University of Cambridge, completed a PhD at Columbia University in New York, and worked for two years as an Assistant Professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.