Thanks to scito for beginning this thread.
My degrees are a BAH and MA from Queen's University, Canada. I did a third-year exchange at the University of Edinburgh.
Phd Programs to which I am intending to apply include Georgetown, UCLA, Toronto, Columbia, UC-Berkeley, Brown, UNC-Chapel Hill, UT-Austin, UW-Madison, Pittsburgh, Harvard, and UM-Ann Arbor.
My academic interests are chiefly in moral psychology, value theory, meta-ethics, and normative ethics, where (i) sophisticated versions of ethical naturalism, (ii) Kantian and Scanlonian contractualist normative theories, and (iii) 'challenges' to traditional ethics (think Williams and Foot) are of particular interest. The thesis I will be defending shortly concerns the conceptual features of such challenges as they figure in the debate around reasonable partiality. I defend a version of impartial morality that is meant to concede certain significant claims of 'partialists' while denying the conclusions they press. My broader philosophical interests are in Marx, topics in egalitarian political philosophy, ancient ethics (especially Aristotle), Kant, and the history of ethics.
