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I set out a challenge for Elizabeth Anderson’s case for the promotion of local knowledge through affirmative action. The challenge is to implement affirmative action without relying on the very structures that promote technē at the expense of mētis. I argue that affirmative action is susceptible to two distinct but related forms of capture: value capture and elite capture, and that its institutionalization therefore faces a dilemma between effectiveness and sensitivity to local knowledge.Local knowledge cannot be engineeredAustralasian Philosophical Review. forthcoming. -
Strangers to ourselves: a Nietzschean challenge to the badness of sufferingInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 67 (9): 3600-3629. 2024.Is suffering really bad? The late Derek Parfit argued that we all have reasons to want to avoid future agony and that suffering is in itself bad both for the one who suffers and impersonally. Nietzsche denied that suffering was intrinsically bad and that its value could even be impersonal. This paper has two aims. It argues against what I call ‘Realism about the Value of Suffering’ by drawing from a broadly Nietzschean debunking of our evaluative attitudes, showing that a recently influential re…Read more
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
UFR de Philosophie
Alumnus, 2014
APA Eastern Division
Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
| Animal Ethics |
| Environmental Ethics |
| Moral Status of Animals |
| Agency |