Samuel Hoadley-Brill

I am a first-year Ph.D. student at the CUNY Graduate Center. My main interests lie in moral, social, and political philosophy. I'm currently working on a moral theory I call 'pluralistic objectivism,' which draws on insights from David Wong's pluralistic relativism and Kantian constructivism to provide a robust account of the possibility of objective moral value consistent with widespread cross-cultural moral diversity. I plan to extend the theory into the domain of political philosophy by building upon Charles Mills's "Black Radical Kantianism." I received my BA in philosophy in 2019 from UC Santa Barbara. My undergraduate honors thesis, "Meinongian Merits and Maladies," was supervised by Nathan Salmon.