Richard Yetter Chappell
Lecturer

Profile

Biography

I am a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of York. Prior to coming to York, I received my PhD from Princeton University (2012), where I wrote a dissertation on Consequentialism and Fittingness. I held a postdoc in medical ethics at the University of Pennsylvania in 2012-13, and from 2013-14 was an assistant professor in Philosophy at Bowling Green.

I have published articles in journals including Noûs, Philosophical Quarterly, and Philosophical Studies, and was (co-)awarded the RoME 2013 Young Ethicist Prize.

Research

Overview

My primary research interests are in Consequentialism and non-naturalist normative realism. Secondary interests - typically explored on my blog - span from applied ethics (eg the harm of death, duties of beneficence, and resource allocation) to epistemology (eg peer disagreement, higher-order evidence, and the a priori) to metaphysics (eg p-zombies, anti-haecceitism, personal identity, and the nature of time).

External activities

Invited talks and conferences

• “A Non-Natural Reason by Any Other Name...” Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference, July 2014

• “Satisficing by Effort: From Scalar to Satisficing Consequentialism” Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, August 2013

• “Consequentialism and Value Receptacles” University of Cambridge, February 2012

• “Consequentialist Agents: The Fitting and the Fortunate” University of St. Andrews, February 2012, Washington University St. Louis, January 2011

• “What’s Fit for the Fallible” Bowling Green State University, January 2012

• “Moral Primitives: Fitting Attitudes for Consequentialists” Australian National University, August 2010

• “Value Holism” University of Canterbury Philosophy Discussion Retreat, July 2010

• Comments on Erica Roedder’s ‘Epistemology and Implicit Racial Bias’ Princeton University Moral Psychology Conference, November 2008