Matt Bedke

Professor
location_on Buchanan E 361
Education

Ph.D. University of Arizona


About

Office Hours – 2023W term 2:

  • Mondays & Wednesdays, 11am – 12pm
  • Location: BUCH E361

Matthew Bedke is a professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia. He is interested in normativity, including ethics and epistemology.

 


Teaching


Research

Matthew Bedke specializes in normativity. He look at first-order inquiries in ethics, prudence, rationality, epistemology, political philosophy etc., and he gravitates toward the second-order semantic, meta-semantic, metaphysical, epistemic, psychological and logical questions that arise. Sometimes he sticks to the first-order inquires to weigh in on what matters and what reasons we have.


Publications

Selected Recent:

  • (forthcoming). “A Dilemma for Non-Naturalists: Irrationality or Immorality?” Philosophical Studies.
  • (2019). “Practical Oomph: A Case for Subjectivism.” Philosophical Quarterly 277: 657–77.
  • (2018). “Non-Descriptive Relativism.” Oxford Studies in Metaethics, vol. 13 (R. Shafer-Landau, ed.), Oxford University Press.

Presentations

Selected Recent:

  • “Naturalism and Normative Cognition”, Wuhan, China, February 2019.
  • “Are Non-Naturalists Irrational or Immoral?” Keynote speaker, SFU conference on “Ways of Knowing in Ethics”, June 2018.
  • “Cosmic Coincidence”, UC Davis ethics group, April 2018.

 


Matt Bedke

Professor
location_on Buchanan E 361
Education

Ph.D. University of Arizona


About

Office Hours – 2023W term 2:

  • Mondays & Wednesdays, 11am – 12pm
  • Location: BUCH E361

Matthew Bedke is a professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia. He is interested in normativity, including ethics and epistemology.

 


Teaching


Research

Matthew Bedke specializes in normativity. He look at first-order inquiries in ethics, prudence, rationality, epistemology, political philosophy etc., and he gravitates toward the second-order semantic, meta-semantic, metaphysical, epistemic, psychological and logical questions that arise. Sometimes he sticks to the first-order inquires to weigh in on what matters and what reasons we have.


Publications

Selected Recent:

  • (forthcoming). “A Dilemma for Non-Naturalists: Irrationality or Immorality?” Philosophical Studies.
  • (2019). “Practical Oomph: A Case for Subjectivism.” Philosophical Quarterly 277: 657–77.
  • (2018). “Non-Descriptive Relativism.” Oxford Studies in Metaethics, vol. 13 (R. Shafer-Landau, ed.), Oxford University Press.

Presentations

Selected Recent:

  • “Naturalism and Normative Cognition”, Wuhan, China, February 2019.
  • “Are Non-Naturalists Irrational or Immoral?” Keynote speaker, SFU conference on “Ways of Knowing in Ethics”, June 2018.
  • “Cosmic Coincidence”, UC Davis ethics group, April 2018.

 


Matt Bedke

Professor
location_on Buchanan E 361
Education

Ph.D. University of Arizona

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Office Hours – 2023W term 2:

  • Mondays & Wednesdays, 11am – 12pm
  • Location: BUCH E361

Matthew Bedke is a professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia. He is interested in normativity, including ethics and epistemology.

 

Teaching keyboard_arrow_down
Research keyboard_arrow_down

Matthew Bedke specializes in normativity. He look at first-order inquiries in ethics, prudence, rationality, epistemology, political philosophy etc., and he gravitates toward the second-order semantic, meta-semantic, metaphysical, epistemic, psychological and logical questions that arise. Sometimes he sticks to the first-order inquires to weigh in on what matters and what reasons we have.

Publications keyboard_arrow_down

Selected Recent:

  • (forthcoming). “A Dilemma for Non-Naturalists: Irrationality or Immorality?” Philosophical Studies.
  • (2019). “Practical Oomph: A Case for Subjectivism.” Philosophical Quarterly 277: 657–77.
  • (2018). “Non-Descriptive Relativism.” Oxford Studies in Metaethics, vol. 13 (R. Shafer-Landau, ed.), Oxford University Press.
Presentations keyboard_arrow_down

Selected Recent:

  • “Naturalism and Normative Cognition”, Wuhan, China, February 2019.
  • “Are Non-Naturalists Irrational or Immoral?” Keynote speaker, SFU conference on “Ways of Knowing in Ethics”, June 2018.
  • “Cosmic Coincidence”, UC Davis ethics group, April 2018.