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Against Neuronormativity in Moral ResponsibilityFeminist Philosophy Quarterly 10 (1). 2024.The moral responsibility literature frequently relies on both explicit and implicit claims about “ideal” or “normal” agency that import unjustified normative assumptions into our theorizing. In doing so, it both fails to reckon with and misconstrues the reality of agential diversity. In this article I diagnose the root of this problem, which I trace back to the confluence of two factors: the search for fundamental agential capacities, and systemic discrimination toward psychological variance. I …Read more
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Functionalisms and the Philosophy of ActionJournal of Applied Philosophy 41 (1): 41-55. 2024.Focusing on the recent work of Michael Bratman as emblematic of several important developments in the philosophy of action, I raise four questions that engage with a set of interlocking concerns about systemic functionalism in the philosophy of action. These questions are: (i) Are individual and institutional intentions the same kind of thing? (ii) Can the risk of proliferation of systemic functional explanations be managed? (iii) Is there an appealing basis for the apparent methodological indiv…Read more
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Strawson's underappreciated argumentative structureEuropean Journal of Philosophy 31 (4): 1045-1060. 2023.The orthodox reading of Peter Strawson's “Freedom and Resentment” tends to hide interesting elements of its underlying argumentative structure. Recognition of a distinction Strawson draws between two classes of reactive attitudes raises a question about how the distinct discussions are related. The orthodox reading seems to assume the only relevant difference between the two classes is one of perspective; however, this reading obscures the analogical nature of Strawson's argument and encourages …Read more
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Virtue and Action: Selected Papers (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2023.This volume brings together a selection of Rosalind Hursthouse’s essays on Aristotle, virtue ethics, and social philosophy. These articles—many of which are published in more obscure venues—provide valuable context and clarification for much of her more famous work on virtue ethics while drawing attention to new avenues of philosophical investigation Hursthouse pursued. Important contributions include articles on the development of virtue in children, what the Aristotelian practically wise perso…Read more
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A Plea for ExemptionsErkenntnis 89 (5): 2013-2030. 2024.Currently popular theories of epistemic responsibility rest on the assumption that justification and excuse exhaust the relevant normative categories. One gets the sense that, once we've laid down the conditions for justified belief, and once we've laid down the conditions of excusably unjustified belief, the work is done; all that's left is to clock out. Against this backdrop, one is naturally led to think that if an agent's doxastic state fails to be justified, it is thereby unjustified, perha…Read more
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Good ThinkingDissertation, University of Arizona. 2022.Good Thinking is a collection of papers about abilities, skills, and know-how and the distinctive but often overlooked—or explained away—role that these phenomena play in various foundational issues in epistemology and action theory. Each chapter, taken on its own, represents a fairly specific intervention into debates in (i) epistemic responsibility, (ii) the nature of inferential justification, and (iii) connections between inference and action. But taken collectively, these chapters constitut…Read more
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California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoDepartment of PhilosophyAssistant Professor
APA Western Division
San Luis Obispo County, California, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
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Free Will |
Moral Responsibility |
Action Theory |
Metaphysics |
Moral Psychology |
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Areas of Interest
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Philosophy of Mind |
Social Philosophy |
Philosophy of Religion |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Metaphilosophy |
P. F. Strawson |