research

Papers (drafts available on request)

• “Neurodivergence and 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.

• “Professionalization as Domination: A Constructive Critique of the Human Rights Profession”
  tldr: the institutionalization of human rights itself constitutes a form of domination over marginalized people. To achieve the liberation sought by the human rights movement, we need to change its structure. This speaks against a popular line of argument that claims that human rights apparatus simply needs greater commitment from member states.

• “Epistemic Punishment, or What’s in an Excuse?”
  tldr: some epistemologists suggest that we can punish bad beliefs. Such a proposal isn’t just wrong; it’s conceptually incoherent.

• “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.