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