My dissertation, advised by the fabulous Sally Haslanger, is tentatively entitled ‘Meaning, Morality, and Metaphysics in the Social World’. Each chapter is also a paper. Chapter 1 is on the metaphysics of social kinds and the metasemantics of social kind terms (R&R). Chapter 2 is on the indeterminacy of social kind terms (soon-to-be 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 has received an R&R.

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.