The goal of this dissertation project is to develop an account of moral understanding which can be illuminating for moral agency, moral development and moral experience. I think the crux of the debate on the nature of moral understanding has to do with the idea of appreciating moral reasons. I …
Intention and intentional action have long been considered relevant to the problem of self- knowledge, i.e., how we arrive at knowledge of our own mental states. However, discussions have largely focused on whether given accounts of self-knowledge, e.g., transparency, can account for our knowledge …
Within this project, a theory of necessary and contingent existence is developed. The project’s goal is to articulate an integrated view, encompassing both a metaphysical account of what necessary and contingent existence consist in as well as an epistemological account of how necessary and contingent existence can be known. The …
I am interested in the phenomenon of intentional thought, and in particular in the difference between what philosophers generally call singular and general thoughts. In my thesis, I hope to give an account of the phenomenon of singular thought that takes into account recents deflationary theories without giving up on …
The topic of my thesis is the epistemic role of perception. I attempt first to explain how perceptual experience can provide an immediate justification for beliefs about the external world in response to Sellars’ and BonJour’s attacks. I thereby also try to see if the possibility of such a perceptual …