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The epistemology of disagreement is primarily concerned with determining the rational response to disagreement. Of particular interest in the literature is the question of peer disagreement: how should you revise your beliefs when faced...
An underexplored aspect of moral experience is the experience of apprehending ("seeing") other people as mattering, grasping the significance of whether their interests are set back or enhanced. I refer to these as value-apprehensional ...
Are free will and determinism compatible? Philosophical focus on this deceptively simple 'compatibility question' has historically been so pervasive that the entire free will debate is now standardly framed in its terms - that is, as a...
Over the past few decades, a vast literature has grown up documenting the systematic errors in intuitive thinking. This literature does not suggest that all intuitions are unreliable, but only specific contexts. These contexts are the...
While undeniably one of the central explanatory concepts in biology, fitness is deployed in an ambiguous or even inconsistent manner by evolutionary biologists as well as philosophers. This sort of foundational confusion is a plea for...
In this dissertation, I examine the prospects for moral particularism. Moral particularism, which, like most views, comes in a variety of flavors, is essentially the view that the role general principles have traditionally played in...
1. Explicating The Concept of Reflection. To understand how ‘reflection’ is used, I consider ordinary, philosophical, and scientific discourse. I find that ‘reflection’ seems to refer to reasoning that is deliberate and conscious, but...
In this dissertation, I draw from the fields of philosophy, psychology, and applied behavior analysis in order to present what I take to be a necessary condition for morally responsible agency, the Integrated Mental Status condition (IMS...
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