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229Taught rules: Instruction and the evolution of normsPhilosophical Studies 181 (2): 433-459. 2024.Why do we have social norms—of fairness, cooperation, trust, property, or gender? Modern-day Humeans, as I call them, believe these norms are best accounted for in cultural evolutionary terms, as adaptive solutions to recurrent problems of social interaction. In this paper, I discuss a challenge to this “Humean Program.” Social norms involve widespread behaviors, but also distinctive psychological attitudes and dispositions. According to the challenge, Humean accounts of norms leave their psycho…Read more
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499Coherence as Joint SatisfiabilityAustralasian Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.According to many philosophers, rationality is, at least in part, a matter of one’s attitudes cohering with one another. Theorists who endorse this idea have devoted much attention to formulating various coherence requirements. Surprisingly, they have said very little about what it takes for a set of attitudes to be coherent in general. We articulate and defend a general account on which a set of attitudes is coherent just in case and because it is logically possible for the attitudes to be join…Read more
APA Eastern Division
Princeton, NJ, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Action |
Areas of Interest
Latin American Philosophy |
Applied Ethics and Normative Ethics |