dissertation abstract
research agenda: political philosophy
research agenda: metametaphysics
some working papers:
draft pdfs, coming soon
here are some miscellaneous notes and resources in the form of papers
political philosophy:
· How are the Rights of Noncitizens Related to Democracy? A Problem for Understanding Liberties of the Moderns as Intrinsic to Democracy
· The Insights
of Political Reciprocity: On the Cognitive Status of Rawls’s “Political
Liberalism”
· Understanding and Institutionalizing the Underpinnings of Political Ethos and Civic Trust in a Deliberative Democracy
· Racists, Sexists, and Other Bigots: Conceptualizing and Institutionally Countering Systemic Sources of Distrust, Dehumanization, and Mistreatment in a Democratic Society
metametaphysics, philosophy of language, modal logic, kant, & etc.:
• Accounting for Singular Terms: An Alternative, Pragmatic Approach for Brandom in the Spirit of both Kant and Hegel
· Understanding What “is real” to “exist” in the Everyday: Metaphysically Neutral, Meager Semantics for Delimiting a Class of Categorical Ontological Expressions
· Matching the Expressive Power of Kripke Semantics without Possible Worlds: Revising and Extending Brandom’s Incompatibility Semantics to Capture Modal Logics Beyond S5
· The Poverty of Emphasizing Conceptual Hierarchies: Insights of Kant’s Analytic/Synthetic Distinction Beyond R. Lanier Anderson’s Focus on the Meager Resources of Rationalist Logic
· Taming Michael Thompson’s “Natural Historical Judgments”: Claims of What is Not Uncharacteristic and Nonmonotonic Counterfactual Conditionals as Formal Modal Complements
· Quantifiers as a Species of a Larger Genus: Quantificational Generality versus Schematic Generality
