• Research Interests
• Teaching
• Publications
• Administrative Roles

Matthew Chrisman joined the department in 2006 after finishing his PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Curriculum Vitae.

Research Interests

Ethics (esp. metaethics), Epistemology (esp. epistemic normativity), Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Action

Teaching

• Meta-Ethics
• Moral and Political Philosophy
• Epistemology
• Advanced Philosophical Method

Publications

Articles

• 'Constructivism, Expressivism and Ethical Knowledge' in a special issue of International Journal of Philosophical Studies, James O’Shea, ed. in conjunction with Naturalism, Normativity, and the Space of Reasons Conference at University College Dublin (forthcoming).
• 'The Aim of Belief and the Goal of Truth' in Self, Language, and World: Problems from Kant, Sellars, and Rosenberg, O’Shea and Rubenstein, eds. (forthcoming).
• 'From Epistemic Expressivism to Epistemic Inferentialism' in Haddock, Millar, and Pritchard (eds.) Social Epistemology, Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
• 'Expressivism, Truth, and (Self-)Knowledge' Philosophers' Imprint, vol. 9, no. 3 (May 2009).
• 'Ethical Neo-Expressivism' (with Dorit Bar-On) in Oxford Studies in Metaethics, vol. 4 (2009).
• 'Expressivism, Inferentialism, and Saving the Debate' in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 77, no. 2, (September 2008).
• 'Ought to Believe' in The Journal of Philosophy, vol. CV, no. 7, (July 2008).
• 'A Dilemma for Moral Fictionalism' in Philosophical Books, Volume 49 (January 2008).
• 'From Epistemic Contextualism to Epistemic Expressivism' in Philosophical Studies, vol. 135, no. 2 (September 2007).

Encyclopedia Entry

• 'Emotivism' in The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Hugh LaFollette, ed. (forthcoming)

R eviews

• Review of William P. Alston's Beyond Justification: Dimensions of Epistemic Evaluation in International Journal of Philosophical Studies Volume 15, issue 2 (June 2007).
• Review of Russ Shafer-Landau's Moral Realism: A Defense in Ethics Volume 116, Number 1 (October 2005).
• Review of Alan Gibbard's Thinking How to Live in Ethics Volume 115, Number 2 (January 2005).

Administrative Roles

Visiting Speaker Series

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