David Faraci

Lecturer in the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and a Visiting Scholar in the philosophy department at UNC Chapel Hill. I received my PhD in philosophy from Bowling Green State University in 2012.

About My Work

Much of my research concerns the related roles coincidence plays in metaethics and epistemology. In ethical epistemology, I examine whether and how different metaethical views can accommodate the idea that for us to have ethical knowledge, it must be no coincidence that our ethical beliefs are true. I also examine the parallels between epistemic coincidence and the common claim that moral worth requires the rightness of one’s actions to likewise be no coincidence. Other research lies at the intersection of business ethics and political philosophy, with focuses on property rights and exploitation. I am also engaged in an ongoing collabotrative project examining the relationship between ignorance and moral responsibility.

In addition to my research, I am co-founder of Open Tower, an organization that develops open source technologies in ser­vice of a more trans­par­ent, in­clu­sive and empowered academy. I am also co-founder of Donation Ethics, a website housing open letters by ethicists and economists who support ethical donation-compensation practices.

Education

Bowling Green State University-Main Campus - Ph.D., Philosophy

Articles

Moral Perception and the Reliability Challenge

Journal of Moral Philosophy forthcoming

Good Selves, True Selves: Moral Ignorance, Responsibility, and the Presumption of Goodness

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research forthcoming (with David Shoemaker)

Hybrid Non-Naturalism Does Not Meet the Supervenience Challenge

Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 2017

On Leaving Room for Doubt: Using Frege-Geach to Illuminate Expressivism’s Problem with Objectivity

Oxford Studies in Metaethics 2017

Ethical Judgment and Motivation

Routledge Handbook in Metaethics 2017 (with Tristram McPherson)

A Hard Look at Moral Perception

Philosophical Studies 2015

Huck vs. JoJo: Moral Ignorance and the (A)symmetry of Praise and Blame

Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy 2014 (with David Shoemaker)

To Inspect and Make Safe: On the Morally Responsible Liability of Property Owners

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 2014 (with Peter Martin Jaworski)

Do Property Rights Presuppose Scarcity?

Journal of Business Ethics 2014

Brown on Mackie: Echoes of the Lottery Paradox

Philosophia 2013

First-Personal Authority and the Normativity of Rationality

Philosophia 2010 (with Christian Coons)

Insanity, Deep Selves, and Moral Responsibility: The Case of JoJo

Review of Philosophy and Psychology 2010 (with David Shoemaker)

Heroes and the Ethics of Time Travel: Does the Present Matter?

Heroes and Philosophy 2009

Book Reviews

Review of Explanation in Ethics and Mathematics: Debunking and Dispensability

Analysis forthcoming

Review of Moral Psychology & Human Agency: Philosophical Essays on the Science of Ethics

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2015

Review of David Enoch’s Taking Morality Seriously: A Defense of Robust Realism

The Journal of Value Inquiry 2012

Works in Progress

On Accomplishment

Knowing What’s Necessary: How Modal Conditions Threaten to Trivialize Ethical (and Other) Knowledge

Non-Naturalism and the ‘Third-Factor’ Gambit

co-author: Aaron Elliott

Wage Exploitation and the Nonworseness Claim: Allowing the Wrong, to Do More Good