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Department of
Philosophy
101 Manchester Hall
344 Mansfield Road
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT
06269-2054
Phone: (860) 486-4416
Fax: (860) 486-0387
shelly.burelle@uconn.edu
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David Slutsky
Interests
Moral philosophy, political philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of science.
Projects
Metaphysics of historical properties. Argue that history makes no more or less of a difference to biology or psychology than to chemistry or physics.
Thought experiments. Catalog A) thought experiments that provide new knowledge about how people think or speak about features of the world, on the one hand, and B) thought experiments that provide new knowledge about features of the world that are independent of how people think or speak, on the other hand. Clarify and emphasize differences between A and B.
Consequentialism, luck egalitarianism, impersonal conceptions of value.
History
Cornell University, AB in Philosophy, magna cum laude, 1992
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