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Richard Coulter

Richard Coulter

Areas of Expertise

  • Philosophy of Language
  • Philosophy of Action
  • History of Philosophy

Education

  • B.A. Philosophy, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 2024

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Bio:

I am currently focused on exploring the intersection of action, communication, and values. I intend to describe the relationship between value ascriptions and ethical discourse. Specifically, I want to understand how the ascription of a value to an event is coherently revisable in light of evidence. I want to focus on revisions motivated by dialectical communication and self-perception. More generally, I am interested in the perplexing relationships between language, perception, action, and embodiment.

Thus far my education has emphasized formal semantics, the history of German language philosophy, and virtue ethics.