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About

Billy Dunaway received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2013. He held a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Oxford for two years before joining the UMSL faculty in 2015. He works on various topics in ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of language. These include the fundamentality of ethical facts; practical reasoning and vagueness in ethics; and the relationship between the grounds of ethical facts and what we can know about them. His papers have appeared in Philosophical Studies, Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Perspectives, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and Oxford Studies in Metaethics, among other places.

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Education/Academic qualification

Philosophy, PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

… → 2013

School of Philosophy, University of Southern California

20062009

Department of Philosophy, BA, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

… → 2005

Research Interests

  • Ethics
  • Metaphysics
  • Epistemology
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Specticism
  • Meta-ethical Expressivism
  • Expressive and Normative Metaphysics

Disciplines

  • Philosophy