Epistemic Insurance Policies Provisionally Accepted
2026 Young Epistemologist Prize
A paper in defense of a class of epistemic norms which insure our intellectual lives against error.
Conner Schultz
Assistant Professor of Philosophy · Florida International University
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About
I work primarily in epistemology, metaethics, and the theory of normativity. I also work in applied epistemology.
I received my PhD in Philosophy in May 2025 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before that, I received my MLitt in Philosophy from the University of St. Andrews and my BA in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin.
In a past life, I was ranked among the top 500 players globally in the video game Overwatch. In an even more distant past life, I wrote commercial stock music for a publishing company; my songs have been used for commercial purposes all over the world.
Publications
Believe It or Not: Transparency Is False Forthcoming
A paper rejecting the popular view that deliberation about what to believe is transparent to what's true. En route, I argue (a) that suspended judgment can be a settled attitude, and (b) that we can believe partly on the basis of non-epistemic reasons.
Eliminativism and Deliberative Control About Reasons for Emotions
A paper arguing, on the basis of the deliberative constraint, that there are no normative reasons for emotions.
The Deliberative Constraint on Reasons
An opinionated guide to the deliberative constraint (of which I am a big fan).
Works in Progress
A paper on the truth norm Under review
Arguing that there is no truth norm on belief, using the deliberative constraint on reasons.
A paper on reliabilism Under review
arguing that the reliabilist's standard response to the problem of followability exposes reliabilism to a dilemma.
A paper on norm followability In Progress
arguing that norms must be followable—by connecting norms to reasons and reasons to the deliberative constraint.
A paper on deepfakes In Progress
drawing out the skeptical implications of deepfakes.
Teaching
Florida International University
- Applied Epistemology
- Theory of Knowledge
- Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud: The Masters of Suspicion
- Introduction to Ethics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
- Marxism and the Critique of Ideology
- The Ethics of War
- Introduction to Critical Thinking
- Introduction to Epistemology
- Applied Epistemology
- Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art