My dissertation, advised by the fabulous Sally Haslanger, is tentatively entitled ‘Meaning and Metaphysics in the Social World’. Chapter 1 is on the metaphysics of social kinds and the metasemantics of social kind terms. Chapter 2 is on the indeterminacy of social kind terms. Both chapters are also papers; the former is currently under review.

This paper argues that the tension between pornography’s being fiction and its being harmful can be resolved with tools from social philosophy and aesthetics. This paper is under review.

Developed from my honors thesis at the University of Michigan, this paper argues that a fundamental fact about eating meat has been overlooked and must be included in our arguments for vegetariansm.