Research Projects
Evidence and Agency
How should we think about our future actions when we are promising or resolving to do something difficult? When you resolve to quit smoking, should you believe you will actually succeed? When you promise to be faithful to someone, should you believe that you will follow through? And how can we make such promises or resolutions at all?
Analytic Existentialism
The existentialists were interested in freedom, anguish, bad faith, self-consciousness, death and the meaning of life. Can we recover their thought for analytic philosophy? And what would a systematic, analytically defensible existentialist view look like, if put in contemporary terms?
The Temporality of Emotions
Many emotions diminish more rapidly than the significance of the considerations that gave rise to them. For example, we quickly accommodate ourselves even to grave injustice despite the fact the injustice remains significant. How can we make sense of our emotions in light of their change over time?
The Ethics of Thought
We relate to others not only through our actions but also through our thoughts. Since moral philosophy is concerned with how we relate to others, thought itself is a subject for moral philosophy. How can epistemology and ethics be one?
Skepticism
Might skepticism be helped by various semantic theories, such as contextualism, relativism, and sensitive invariantism? And can a skeptical argument be made independently of the notorious principle that knowing requires knowing that we know? In general, is the case for skepticism better than is nowadays assumed?