PhD Student, Philosophy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Email: pdavydov@philosophy.rutgers.edu
Blog: spontaneousabstraction.blogspot.com
I'm in my third year in the Philosophy PhD program at Rutgers. Before coming here, I spent a couple of years at Brown University. I earned a BA in Philosophy (with high distinction) from the University of Toronto, near which I have made my home (or rather had it made for me) since moving from Russia in 1995.
My CV can be found here.
TEACHING
Here you will find all you need if you are a student of mine, or want to know more about my teaching.
RESEARCH
Drafts of the papers I am working on will eventually be posted here.
Here are some of my research interests:
Main Interests
- Philosophy of Language: intensionality, objects of attitudes, metaphysics of words, questions and answers, counterpossibles, assertion
- Metaphysics: facts, parthood, locations, abstract particulars, relations
- Epistemology: epistemic conservatism, the structure of epistemic states, the place of falsehood in epistemology, understanding
Additional Interests
- Value Theory: connections between normative domains, organic unity, desires
- Philosophy of Literature: fiction, metaphor
DISSERTATION
My dissertation was supposed to be on normativity but somehow turned into one about propositions, attitudes, and the puzzles of intensionality (with emphasis on the paradox of analysis).