Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/view/stavros-orfeas-zormpalas
I got my PhD from Brown University in 2024, under the supervision of David Christensen and Jamie Dreier.
I work in value theory and connected questions in epistemology. My research concerns a virtuous kind of dogmatism that characterizes our moral commitments; that is, the fact that we arguably morally and epistemically ought to prioritize our intuitive commitment in the badness of certain acts (like torturing babies), over our commitment in a theory about the nature of goodness and badness. I find this dogmatism intuitive, but philosophically puzzling.
In 2025, I am …
Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/view/stavros-orfeas-zormpalas
I got my PhD from Brown University in 2024, under the supervision of David Christensen and Jamie Dreier.
I work in value theory and connected questions in epistemology. My research concerns a virtuous kind of dogmatism that characterizes our moral commitments; that is, the fact that we arguably morally and epistemically ought to prioritize our intuitive commitment in the badness of certain acts (like torturing babies), over our commitment in a theory about the nature of goodness and badness. I find this dogmatism intuitive, but philosophically puzzling.
In 2025, I am co-organizing the Cyprus Metaethics Workshop, and the Rethinking Moral Intuition Conference with Christos Kyriacou.
