Contemporary political theorists have tended to ignore the question of parental authority in their exploration of the nature and origins of political authority. Nevertheless, seminal …
My dissertation aims at throwing new light on the problem of agency, by pursuing a reductionist project about agent causation. In Chapter 1, I provide …
This work addresses a cluster of problems in action theory, philosophical aesthetics, and moral psychology. The first three chapters present an account whereby a class …
The “conceptualism” debate asks whether perception is conceptual or nonconceptual. It has arisen in different forms and guises throughout the history of philosophy. This thesis …
This dissertation explores the relationship between individuals’ everyday actions and the justice or injustice of entire societies. It is a conceptual and sociological investigation of …
This dissertation consists of three related but self-contained papers. The first clarifies what some philosophers have thought to be an epistemological problem for metaethical realism: …
In this dissertation I aim to develop and defend an account of moral offence. This concept, first introduced by Roderick Chisholm, is characterized by action …
In the 2020 presidential elections, Democratic nominees in the primaries all had proposals to advance society and do what’s “good.” Various proposals included distributive justice …
Free will skepticism—a term that encompasses multiple arguments that cast doubt upon our free will—is on the rise in recent decades, especially in response to …
