Faculty & Professional Staff

Philosophy Department

David A. Merli

Associate Professor of Philosophy

717-291-4137

david.merli@fandm.edu

Office: LSP 164

Research Interests: Meta-ethics, Normative Ethics

Education

B.A., State University of New York College at Geneseo, 1994

M.A., The Ohio State University, 1999

PhD, The Ohio State University, 2003

Dissertation: Moral Disagreement and Shared Meaning (Justin D'Arms and Don Hubin, co-advisors)

Publications

"Return to Moral Twin Earth," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 32 (2002), 207-240.

"Moral convergence and the univocity problem," American Philosophical Quarterly 44:4 (2007) 291-314.

"Expressivism and the limits of moral disagreement," Journal of Ethics 12 (2008) 25-55.

"Possessing moral concepts," forthcoming in Philosophia.

Presentations

Center for History, Society, and Culture, UC Davis (April 2009).  "Moral knowledge, disagreement, and meaning."

Society for Christian Philosophers (February 2009).  Comments on Alvin Plantinga, "Naturalism, theism, obligation, and supervenience."

Alabama Philosophical Society (September 2008).   "Moral knowledge, concepts, and contingency."

 

 

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