research

Papers (drafts available on request)

  • “Excuses in Law and Epistemology”
    tldr: some epistemologists suggest that we can punish bad beliefs. Such a proposal isn’t just wrong; it’s conceptually incoherent.

  • “Neurodivergence and Discrimination in Normative Signals”
    tldr: normative interactions require us to do things, and doing things requires specific abilities. This observation allows us to find a deep connection between disability justice and participation within normative communities. In this paper, I limn that connection, particularly as it relates to communication and neurodivergence.

  • “Correcting Incoherence”
    tldr: you learn your credences are incoherent. What should you do? I propose one mode of belief revision, what I call credal correction. I show how credal correction provides us new ways to appreciate the graded irrationality of incoherence.

Papers-in-progress (abstracts available on request)

  • A paper on market share liability, environmental justice, and the wrong of risking.

  • A paper on what legal theory can teach about epistemic criticism — and more importantly, what it can’t.

  • A paper answering the question: what’s going on when you tell someone they should’ve remembered something?

  • A paper answering the question: are you ever under an obligation to forgive someone who’s wronged you? I argue yes.

  • A paper on restorative justice within epistemology.

  • A paper on the epistemic conditions for justified civil disobedience.

  • A paper on group epistemology, arrogance, and civil disobedience.