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46Richard Pettigrew: Accuracy and the Laws of CredenceJournal of Philosophy 114 (9): 503-508. 2017.
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96The Dominance Principle in Epistemic Decision TheoryPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 96 (3): 763-775. 2018.
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234An Accuracy‐Dominance Argument for ConditionalizationNoûs 54 (1): 162-181. 2020.Epistemic decision theorists aim to justify Bayesian norms by arguing that these norms further the goal of epistemic accuracy—having beliefs that are as close as possible to the truth. The standard defense of Probabilism appeals to accuracy dominance: for every belief state that violates the probability calculus, there is some probabilistic belief state that is more accurate, come what may. The standard defense of Conditionalization, on the other hand, appeals to expected accuracy: before the ev…Read more
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744The Greening of Heart and Mind: A Love StoryEnvironmental Ethics 31 (2): 155-168. 2009.Some environmentalists have argued that an effective ecological conscience may be rooted in a perspective that is either anthropocentric or sentiocentric. But, neither seems to have had any substantial effect on the ways in which our species treats nature. In looking to successfully awaken the ecological conscience, the focus should be on extending moral consideration to the land (wherein doing so includes all of the soils, waters, plants, animals, and the collectivity of which these things comp…Read more
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32I provide critical discussion of conception of and talk of psychic integration which I take to be both excessive and deficient; these viciously extreme positions are championed by the Apostle Paul and St. Augustine, and by Jacques Lacan and María Lugones, respectively. I suggest that we must negotiate a Buddhist-inspired understanding located between these extremes in endorsing any acceptable conception of the self, generally speaking—a conception which, contra the strong antirealist about selve…Read more
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20Nameless, Faceless, Selfless: Can the Utilitarian Terrorist Possess Integrity?The Pluralist 14 (3): 51-77. 2019.Selfhood requires sufficient rationality, the capacities for self-reflection and self-knowledge, the capacity for autonomous action, temporal situatedness and an awareness of this, and psychological continuity and an awareness of this. Contemporary philosophers have more or less reached a consensus regarding NS, and the lion's share of discourse regarding the self seems to center on making sense of this constellation.While certainly having their own respective places within such discussions, val…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Value Theory |
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Value Theory |
Philosophy of Action |
Meta-Ethics |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |