In this dissertation, I offer an account of the social constitution of agency and I show how it grounds normative features applying to us as agents. This is a theory that I call social constitutivism. Constitutivism holds ...

In this dissertation, I develop a substantive, scientific account of the nature of practical normativity and then use this account to articulate an empirically tractable version of the rationalist approach to ethics. In ...

Sometimes, people using different epistemological strategies have to work together on a shared project. The differences between their epistemological strategies may make it difficult to share knowledge relevant to their ...

A growing body of empirical research suggests that estrangement in interpersonal relationships is common, painful, and often bewildering. Unfortunately, to date there has been no philosophical discussion of interpersonal ...

People have a peculiar relationship with space. Much of our thinking about who we are and how we relate to each other is mediated situationally and spatially. Put differently, where we are situated in space matters to how ...

Philosophy is in the midst of a social turn. Our community is pouring new energy into fields like social epistemology and social ontology, and across the discipline we have turned our focus toward political and ethical ...

Unearthing and making explicit the conditions for human experience is the task of phenomenology. The methodologies deployed in service of this aim have traditionally focused on stripping away what is specific or idiosyncratic ...

Many common sexual interactions are harmful, but do not fit neatly into the criminal legal system’s definition of what constitutes rape. Because of this, they are routinely brushed aside. However, these interactions are ...

In this dissertation I develop a political approach to the subject of moral status. While much of the moral status literature focuses on questions of individual morality—like whether I may permissibly eat meat for dinner ...

In his autobiography Martin Luther King, Jr. recounts how his mother, Alberta Williams King, confronted what he describes as “the age-old problem of the Negro parent in America: how to explain discrimination and segregation ...