I am Shawn Wang, and I currently work as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Washington.
My research primarily concerns issues in ethics and moral psychology, with a focus on the nature of blame, moral responsibility, and moral emotions. I argue for a pluralist function-based account of blame, according to which blame serves a cluster of interacting functions including protest, communication, and signaling. I also write about shame, intellectual humility, intuitions, and conceptual engineering.
Before joing UW, I worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of…
I am Shawn Wang, and I currently work as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Washington.
My research primarily concerns issues in ethics and moral psychology, with a focus on the nature of blame, moral responsibility, and moral emotions. I argue for a pluralist function-based account of blame, according to which blame serves a cluster of interacting functions including protest, communication, and signaling. I also write about shame, intellectual humility, intuitions, and conceptual engineering.
Before joing UW, I worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Salzburg in Austria. I received my PhD in Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego in 2022.
