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47Being UnderstoodPhilosophical Issues. forthcoming.Philosophical work in the ethics of thought focuses heavily on the ethics of belief, with, in recent years, a particular emphasis on the ways in which we might wrong other people either through our beliefs about them, or our failure to believe what they tell us. Yet in our own lives we often want not merely to be believed, but rather to be understood by others. What does it take to understand another person? In this paper, I provide an account of interpersonal understanding that speaks to this w…Read more
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248Moral Understanding Between You and MePhilosophy and Public Affairs. forthcoming.Much attention has been paid to moral understanding as an individual achievement, when a single agent gains insight into distinctly moral matters. Crucially overlooked, I argue, is the phenomenon of shared moral understanding, when you and I understand moral matters together, in a way that can’t be reduced to each of us having moral understanding on our own. My argument pays close attention to two central moral practices: justifying our actions to others, and apologizing for wrongdoing. I argue …Read more
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364Solidarity and the Work of Moral UnderstandingPhilosophical Quarterly 74 (2): 525-545. 2024.Because moral understanding involves a distinctly first-personal grasp of moral matters, there is a temptation to think of its value primarily in terms of achievements that reflect well on its possessor: the moral worth of one's action or the virtue of one's character. These explanations, I argue, do not do full justice to the importance of moral understanding in our moral lives. Of equal importance is the value of moral understanding in our relations with other moral agents. In particular, I ar…Read more
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University of North Carolina, Chapel HillDepartment of PhilosophyTeaching Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Core Faculty Member In PPE
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Areas of Specialization
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Moral Reasoning and Motivation |
Moral Epistemology |