Errol Lord
philosophy
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
Germany
Biography
Errol Lord is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. He works in ethical theory, epistemology, aesthetics, and the philosophy of action. He won the 2013 Marc Sanders Prize in Metaethics. He has published extensively in journals and edited collections. His first monograph, The Importance of Being Rational , is from Oxford University Press. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 2013. He received his Masters degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Bachelors degrees from Arizona State University. At FRIAS he is working on a book about how we learn about art and morality.
Research Interest
His current research focuses on Knowing the Normative World
Publications
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What You're Rationally Needed to Do and What You Do" ("The Same Thing!"), Forthcoming in Mind
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How to Learn About Aesthetics and Morality through Acquaintance and Deference", forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Metaethics
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The Importance of Being Rational , forthcoming from OUP
