Teaching

Current (Fall 2024)

  • On Research Leave

Future

  • PHIL 735: Advanced Studies in Epistemology: Applied Epistemology (Spring 2025)
  • PHIL 335: Theory of Knowledge (Fall 2025)
  • PHIL 760: Advanced Studies in Moral Theory: Ignorance, Uncertainty, and Morality (with Maggie Shea) (Fall 2025)

Past

  • PHIL 745: Advanced Studies in Philosophy of Language: Context-Sensitivity (Spring 2024) (syllabus)
  • PHIL 140: Knowledge and Society (Fall 2022) (syllabus)
  • PHIL 700: Proto-Seminar for First-Year Graduate Students (with Luc Bovens) (Fall 2022) (syllabus)
  • PHIL 335: Theory of Knowledge (Spring 2022) (syllabus)
  • PHIL 462: Contemporary Moral Philosophy: Metaethics (Spring 2022) (syllabus)
  • PHIL 110H: Introduction to Philosophy: Great Works (Fall 2021; syllabus)
  • PHIL 770: Advanced Studies in Political Philosophy: Political Epistemology and Democratic Theory (Fall 2021; syllabus)
  • PHIL 140H: Knowledge and Society (Spring 2021; syllabus)
  • PHIL 994: Dissertation Research Seminar (with Carla Merino-Rajme) (Spring 2021)
  • PHIL 335: Theory of Knowledge (Fall 2019) (syllabus)
  • PHIL 990: Current Research Reading Group (on my book manuscript, Fitting Things Together: Coherence and the Demands of Structural Rationality) (Fall 2019) (syllabus)
  • PHIL 433: Current Issues in Analytic Philosophy: Normative Epistemology (Spring 2019; syllabus)
  • PHIL 140: Knowledge and Society (Spring 2019; syllabus)
  • PHIL 700: Proto-Seminar for First-Year Graduate Students (with Susan Wolf) (Spring 2018; syllabus)
  • PHIL 140H: Knowledge and Society (Spring 2018; syllabus)
  • PHIL 765: Advanced Studies in Value Theory: Practical Reasons and Rationality (Fall 2017; syllabus)
  • PHIL 362: Contemporary Ethical Theory: Metaethics (Fall 2017; syllabus)
  • PHIL 453: Philosophy of Psychology: Irrationality (Spring 2017; syllabus)
  • PHIL 994: Dissertation Research Seminar (with Mariska Leunissen) (Spring 2017)
  • PHIL 335: Theory of Knowledge (Fall 2016; syllabus)
  • PHIL 110H: Introduction to Philosophy: Great Works (Fall 2016; syllabus)
  • PHIL UA-2: Great Works in Philosophy (Spring 2016, NYU; syllabus)
  • PHIL UA-41: The Nature of Values (Fall 2015, NYU; syllabus)
  • PHIL 333: Rationality (with Stephen Darwall) (Fall 2013, Yale; syllabus)

Graduate Supervision 

Below is a list of graduate students on whose PhD advisory committees I’ve served or am serving, together with placement information for those who have completed their PhDs. Those for whom I serve(d) as the primary advisor or co-primary advisor are marked with an asterisk.

In Progress

  • *Yan Chen (topic: norms on inquiry; PhD expected 2027)
  • Zach Ferguson (topic: animal ethics; PhD expected 2027)
  • Ralph Flanders (topic: metaphilosophy; PhD expected 2027)
  • Meredith Sheeks (topic: moral indeterminacy and the authority of morality; PhD expected 2027)
  • *Logan Mitchell (topic: mindfulness; PhD expected 2026)
  • Cal Fawell (topic: presuppositions and defeat; PhD expected 2026)
  • *Devin Lane (topic: deference to experts; PhD expected 2026)
  • *Genae Matthews (topic: social position and higher-order evidence; PhD expected 2026)
  • *Ripley Stroud (topic: the ethics of disagreement; PhD expected 2026)
  • Gabriella Hulsey (topic: the ethics of moral criticism; PhD expected 2025)
  • *Conner Schultz (topic: deliberation and normativity; PhD expected 2025)
  • *Aaron Thieme (topic: the theory of overall harm and benefit; PhD expected 2025)

Completed

  • Will Conner [Pittsburgh]: PhD, 2024 (title: An Examination of the Epistemology of Prejudiced Belief); currently a postdoc at UNC Chapel Hill
  • DeeAnn Spicer: PhD, 2024 (title: Look Who’s Talking: Essays on Speaker Social-Identity and Politically Significant Language); current a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Howard
  • *Z Quanbeck: PhD, 2023 (title: Kierkegaard and the Ethics of Belief); currently a postdoc at Princeton
  • Minji Jang: PhD, 2023 (title: Fitting Blame without Blameworthiness); currently a postdoc at Georgetown
  • *Nevin Johnson: PhD, 2023 (title: The Role of Purpose in Legal Reasoning); currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor at NC State
  • *Dominik Berger: PhD, 2022 (title: Believing as Closing Inquiry); currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Bowdoin
  • Alex Campbell: PhD, 2022 (title: How to Be a Relaxed Realist); currently a Public Policy Analyst at the North Carolina Budget and Tax Center
  • Chris Blake-Turner: PhD, 2021 (title: Basing Is Committing: Essays on Reasoning, Rationality, and Logic); currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University
  • *Aliosha Barranco Lopez: PhD, 2021 (title: Hinge-Commitments as Arational Beliefs); currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Bowdoin
  • Eric Sampson: PhD, 2020 (title: Intellectual Courage in the Face of Intractable Normative Disagreement); currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Purdue (previously: postdocs at Georgetown and Rhodes)
  • Keshav Singh: PhD, 2020 (title: Rational Agency and Normative Achievement); currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (previously: tenure-track at Syracuse)
  • Ian Cruise: PhD, 2020 (title: The Elements of a Humean Theory of Justice); currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (previously: postdoc at Dartmouth)
  • Amy Glaser: PhD, 2018 (title: The Liberation of Young People); currently a Teaching Assistant Professor at NC State