Assistant Professor
Hellems 186
TR 3:00-3:30, 4:45-5:45
Teaching in Spring 21: PHIL 6340 001
Brian joined the department in 2018. He has previously taught at Washington University in St. Louis, C.U. Boulder, and California State University Los Angeles. Brian's work is on epistemology, ethics, and the intersection of ethics and epistemology.
Current research: one current project is on how false beliefs, irrational beliefs, and incomplete information affect what we should do. Relatedly, he is also working on whether and why it matters that we rationally form beliefs, given that most truths are not worth knowing.
Brian's non-philosophical interests include drumming, video games, and cooking.
For more information, see his CV.
Selected papers:
- Repugnant accuracy (forthcoming, Nous)
- Collective Action Problems and Conflicting Obligations (forthcoming in Philosophical Studies)
- Replaceable lawyers and guilty defendants (Journal of Moral Philosophy, 2017)
- The Best Argument for "Ought Implies Can" is a Better Argument Against "Ought Implies Can" (Ergo, 2016)
- Why so negative? Evidence aggregation and armchair philosophy (Synthese, 2014)
- Truth promoting non-evidential reasons for belief (Philosophical Studies, 2014)