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30Modesty's Inoffensive Self-PresentationPhilosophical Psychology 37 1-23. 2024.Philosophers often characterize modesty as a disposition that primarily or exclusively involves individual attitudes about one’s worth in relation to others. Borrowing from William James, I offer an interpersonal view of modesty that requires an emotional disposition sensitive to causing others offense based upon one’s self-presentation. On this view, modesty is a trait with the following three necessary features: (1) the modest person, A, endorses a norm of self-presentation M, (2) A is justifi…Read more
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150Humility's IndependencePhilosophia 51 (5). 2023.Philosophers often claim that humility is a dependent virtue: a virtue that depends on another virtue for its value. I consider three views about this relation: Specific Dependence, Unspecific Dependence, and Fittingness. I argue that, since humility cannot uniquely depend on another virtue, and since this uniqueness is desirable, we should reject Specific and Unspecific Dependence. I defend a Fittingness view, according to which the humble person possesses some objectively good quality fitting …Read more
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71Demystifying Humility's ParadoxesEpisteme 19 (1): 1-18. 2022.The utterance “I am humble” is thought to be paradoxical because a speaker implies that they know they are virtuous or reveals an aim to impress others – a decidedly non-humble aim. Such worries lead to the seemingly absurd conclusion that a humble person cannot properly assert that they are humble. In this paper, I reconstruct and evaluate three purported paradoxes of humility concerning its self-attribution, knowledge and belief about our own virtue, and humility's value. I argue that humility…Read more
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67Is Situationism Conservatively Revisionary for Ethics?The Journal of Ethics 26 (1): 69-91. 2021.Psychological situationism is the view that our behavior is ordered by external features of situations as opposed to robust character traits. Philosophical situationists have taken this claim to be conservatively revisionary for ethics; on their view, situationism problematizes only character, not any essential features of our ethical deliberation. Little has been said, however, about how these revisions motivate situationists’ claim that we ought to redirect our attention from cultivating virtu…Read more
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15Mark Alfano, Michael P. Lynch, and Alessandra Tanesini (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Humility (review)Journal of Moral Philosophy 18 (6). 2021.
University of Colorado, Boulder
PhD, 2023
Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Normative Ethics |
Moral Psychology |
Areas of Interest
Meta-Ethics |
Applied Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
African Philosophy |