Elise Springer is broadly engaged with moral theory, and more specifically with the relationship between moral ideals and the activity of criticism. Bringing a broadly pragmatist account of judgment and communication to bear on moral discourse, they show how the challenges of moral criticism require us to rethink some standard assumptions in moral theory. Springer is also interested in moral responsibility, ecological and material relations, and practical questions about how to interpret and engage with actions that strike us as morally troubling.