Dylan Balfour
Thesis title: The Cluelessness Argument
- Philosophy
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: dylan.balfour@ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisors:
Address
- Street
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Dugald Stewart Building
- City
- 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AD
Background
I'm interested in "cluelessness" - the idea that we know only a tiny proportion of our actions' total consequences. More specifically, I'm investigating whether cluelessness poses a threat to consequentialism, and how it might affect the decision-making of effective altruists.
Undergraduate teaching
Greats: From Plato to the Englightenment (2020)
Conference details
'Expanding the Situationist Challenge to Reliabilism About Memory' Ninth Annual Edinburgh Graduate Epistemology Conference, May 2019
Dr Elinor Mason
'Second-Personal Theodicy: Coming to Know Why God Permits Suffering by Coming to Know God Himself'. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion. Forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11153-020-09763-x
'Review of Hilary Greaves & Theron Pummer (eds.) Effective Altruism: Philosophical Issues (Oxford: OUP, 2019)' Journal of Moral Philosophy. Forthcoming.