Title: ‘Challenging the Pursuit of Novelty’ Abstract: Noveltyunderstood as the value of saying something newappears to be a good-making feature of a philosophical contribution. Beyond this, however, novelty functions as…
Title: ‘Normative Expectations’ Abstract: In supplementing the familiar ways that our interpersonal relationships are morally fraught, recent work in epistemology on doxastic wronging has highlighted how these relationships can be…
Title: The Permissibility of Lesser Evil Abstract: Flood: Flood water is headed toward a cave where five innocent people are trapped and will be killed if the water reaches them.…
TITLE: Interactional Wrongs and Vices ABSTRACT: This paper explores a domain of action that we often regard as a minor moral matter, the domain of ordinary interactions. Yet, ordinary interactions…
Title: Big Data and the Risk of Misguided Responsibilization Abstract: The arrival of big data promises new degrees of precision in understanding human behavior. Could it also make it…
Title: Justice Before Role Obligations Abstract: Many believe that agents in the justice system are morally constrained to follow certain assigned roles, understood as excluding the exercise of moral judgement:…
Title: Value Capture Abstract: Value capture occurs when an agent enters a social environment which presents external expressions of value which are often simplified, standardized, and quantified and…
Title: The limits of ideology critique Abstract: The tradition of ideology critique promises a lot. It promises to be critical of the existing social order. (Good!) But it promises to…
Title: Ameliorative Skepticism and the Nature of Health Abstract: In this talk, Ill give a brief overview of the project I call ameliorative skepticism. Sally Haslanger has argued that, in…
Title: “Against ‘Good For,’ Against ‘Well-Being'” Abstract:This paper challenges the widely held view that good for, well- being, and related terms express a distinctive evaluative concept of central importance for…
Title: Epistemic Reparations and the Right to be Known Abstract: In this paper, I provide an account of the epistemic significance of the phenomenon of being known and the relationship…
Event co-Hosted with ECT and FPST. Title: Extractivist epistemologies Abstract: This paper (which is very much a work in progress) will develop the concept of extractivist epistemology as a way…
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