Students

New York City, 2014.

PhD—past students

Vivaldi Jean-Marie, “The Relationship of Historical Knowledge and Eternal Happiness in Kierkegaard’s Fragments and Postscript”, 2005.

David Kishik, “To Imagine a Form of Life: Remarks on Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Language”, 2006.

Judit Torok, “Aesthetic Judgment and Wittgenstein”, 2007.

Anstein Gregersen, “The Active Mind: On Perception and First-Person Authority”, 2008.

Aloisia Moser, “Performative Intentionality”, 2009.

Matt Congdon, “Moral Articulation: on the Formulation of New Moral Universals”, 2014.

Samuel Ben-Meir, “Ethical Interanimality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Nature”, 2014.

Robin Muller, “The Romantic Subject of Perception: A Phenomenological Account of Conceptual Mindedness”, 2014.

Jonathan Chalier, “Otherwise Specified: Investigating Autism and Philosophy of Mind”, 2014.

Jason Fisette, “Reason and Realism in Hume’s Moral Philosophy,” 2015.

Janna van Grunsven, “Bringing Life in View: An Enactive Account of Moral Perception,” 2015.

Adam Gies, “Unraveling Folk Psychology: Mindshaping and Plural Frameworks of Rational Agency in Human Social Cognition,” 2016.

Carlo Alvaro, “Veganism as a Virtue,” 2017.

Daniel Jove, “The Bequest of Language: Aspects of Inheritance in Stanley Cavell,” 2017.

Mark Theunissen, “Rationality and Naturalism in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences,” 2017.

Edward Guetti, “Conspicuous Absences and Formative Losses: Literature, Moral Theory, and Wittgenstein,” 2018. 

Kathleen Kelley, “Automatism is a Humanism: Cavell, Medium and Modernism,” 2018.

David Bak Geler, “Practical Improvisation: Rule-following, Spontaneity and Democracy,” 2019. 

Marcus Michelsen, “A Genealogical Reading of Wittgenstein,” 2020.

Carolyn Colsant, “Irony: Both Dangerous and Necessary,” 2020.

Joel de Lara, “Speech Acts and Epistemic Responsibility,” 2020.

Lisa McKeown, “The Art of Acknowledgment: Rethinking How Speech Acts,” 2021.

Carlos de La Puente, “The Unconscious, Drive, and Desire in Anglo-Saxon Philosophy and Psychoanalysis,” 2021.


New York City, 2019.

PhD—current students 

Weioquing Chen, co-supervised with Cinzia Arruzza, title not yet declared, in progress.

Ross Edwards, in progress.

Luke Ford, in progress.

Camila Lobo (University of Lisbon), co-supervised with Nuno Venturinha, “The Perspective of Care: Toward a Feminist Epistemology of Work,” in progress. 

Clara Lupi, in progress.

Rob Mass, “Everyday Business Ethics,” in progress. 

Aaron Neber, “The Critical Moment in Animal Studies,” in progress.

Lena Nowak-Laird, in progress

Kyle O’Dowd, “Variations on Aesthetic Naturalism,” in progress.

Sarah Schweig, “Aesthetic Corruption,” in progress.

Birte Strunk, in progress.

Secondary role for the PhD of: Cayla Clinkenbeard


PhD dissertations outside the New School

Member of the examination committee for Jennifer’s Daigle’s PhD Dissertation (“Liberating Animal Ethics”, directed by Michael Della Rocca), in progress.

External Examiner of Julian Ratcliffe DPhil Thesis, “Out of the Fly-Bottle: Genealogy, Power, and Normativity in the Space of Reasons”, University of Oxford, UK, June 2025

External Reviewer of Christopher Scott Robinson’s PhD dissertation (“The Claim of Experience: Aesthetics and Modernity in the Work of Walter Benjamin, Jacques Rancière and Stanley Cavell”), Monash University, Australia, March 2022.

Oxford BPhil Supervisions, 2018-2019:
Joe Rosing
Patricia Cipollitti

Oxford MPhil Supervision, 2018-2019:
Lilly Johnson, Philosophical Theology

External Reviewer of Patrizia Setola’s PhD dissertation, “Ethical Encounters with Sentient Others,” Philosophy Department, University College Dublin, Ireland, December 2016.

Co-director with Logi Gunarsson of Karsten Schönller’s PhD dissertation, “Toward a Wittgensteinian Meta-Ethics,” Philosophy Department, University of Potsdam, Germany, June 2016. 

Expert Reader, Camilla Kronqvist’s PhD dissertation, “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love,” Philosophy Department, Abo Academy University, Finland, August 2007. 

External Reviewer, Douglas Andrew Gaff’s PhD dissertation, “On Reasons and Disagreement in Ethics,” Philosophy Department, University of Melbourne, Australia, June 2007. 

External Committee Member, Rami Gudovitch’s PhD dissertation, “A Nominalist Conception of the Extent of the Intentional,” Philosophy Department, Columbia University, December 2006. 

First opponent for Cato Wittusen’s PhD dissertation, “Lost Surroundings: An Essay on Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy,” Philosophy Department, University of Bergen, Norway, February 2006. 

External Committee Member for David Shainok’s PhD dissertation, Philosophy Department, Columbia University, 2005.


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