Justin Clarke-Doane

Books

In Progress Philosophy and the Physical World.

Forthcoming Mathematics and Metaphilosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (commissioned for Cambridge Elements, Philosophy of Mathematics). [Current Draft]

2020 Morality and Mathematics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Penultimate Draft] [Workshop Photo]

Forthcoming "Précis" & "Reply to Critics" for an author-meets-critics symposium, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (with commentary by Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Brian Leiter, & Gideon Rosen).

Forthcoming "Précis" & "Reply to Critics" for an author-meets-critics symposium, Analysis (with commentary by Sean Carroll, Paul Horwich, & Sarah McGrath).

Introduction
Chapter 1: Realism, Ontology and Objectivity
Chapter 2: Self-Evidence, Proof and Disagreement
Chapter 3: Observation and Indispensability
Chapter 4: Genealogical Debunking Arguments
Chapter 5: Explaining our Reliability
Chapter 6: Realism, Objectivity and Evaluation
Conclusions

Available at: Oxford Scholarship Online. [Errata]

Purchase at: Amazon, Book Depository, & Google

"Morality and Mathematics is a terrific book on the epistemological issues faced by realist views in mathematics and morality. Clarke-Doane provides a far more nuanced discussion of these issues than I've seen elsewhere, with sensitivity to what is common in the two domains, and what is different, and to the extent to which the apparent differences hide an underlying similarity. It is sure to become the standard work on this subject." --Hartry Field (NYU)

March 2021 Interview with Sean Carroll for Mindscape [YouTube] [Subreddit]
TBA 2021 Interview with Brad Cokelet about the book for the Ethical Theory Review.
December 2020 Author-meets-critics panel with Michael Harris, Michele Moody-Adams, David Papineau, and Katja Vogt at the Heyman Center for the Humanities, New York, NY. [YouTube]
September 2020 Question and Answer feature about the book for Columbia News.
January 2020 Author-meets-critics panel with Catarina Dutilh Novaes and Sinan Dogramaci at the Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern).
June 2019 Author-meets-critics panel with Matthew Bedke, Colin Marshall, Conor Mayo-Wilson, and Michael Raven at the Canadian Philosophical Association Congress.

"Justin Clarke-Doane identifies and explores the shocking parallelism between morality and mathematics: on a surprising number of philosophical fronts, the two disparate subjects seem to face common problems and analogous solutions and rebuttals, whether the issue is realism, a priori justification, objectivity, naturalism or pluralism. With consummate philosophical skill, Clarke-Doane teases apart the differences and uncovers what is truly common and what is not. A remarkable philosophical work." --Joel David Hamkins (Notre Dame)

Philosophical Quarterly: "In this brilliantly original book, Justin Clarke-Doane...has upended many long-held views on morality and mathematics....Accept it or reject it, it manifests Clarke-Doane's extraordinary combination of philosophical imagination and logical skill, and what I have discussed in this review is only a small sample of the philosophical gold to be found in his book." -- David Gordon (Ludwig von Mises Institute)

International Journal for the Study of Skepticism: "[The book's] place in the literature as something of a milestone has been obvious to interested parties for some time. Morality and Mathematics is an outstanding achievement and will be the standard point of reference for future work on the topics of which it treats." -- Hallvard Lillehammer (Birkbeck College, University College, London)

Philosophia Mathematica: "This excellent book...compares morality and mathematics. Their similarities and differences are not what one might naively supposee, as the author demonstrates. The book is highly recommended to philosophers interested in both subjects, and to anyone who seeks a global understanding of how morality and mathematics fit into our belief system....The idea that practical questions alone resist deflation in the face of pluralist...realism ...facilitated by the tension between realism and objectiity... mak[es]...for a rather striking metaphilosophical vision." --Michael Bevan & Alexander Paseau (Oxford University)
CHOICE: "Clarke-Doane...brings remarkable expertise and...research to [this project]. The main argument [is] copiously defended in this lucid but highly technical treatise....Underlying [the argument] is the important distinction between realism and objectivity....." --Sheila Mason (Concordia Uniiversity)

Forthcoming (with William McCarthy) "Modal Pluralism and Higher-Order Logic," Philosophical Perspectives: Metaphysics (supplement to Noûs). [Current Draft]
Forthcoming (with Kathryn Tabb) "Addiction and Agency," Matt King and Josh May (eds.), Responsibility and Mental Disorders. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Penultimate Draft]
Forthcoming "Set-Theoretic Pluralism and the Benacerraf Problem," Philosophical Studies. [Penultimate Draft]
Forthcoming (with Dan Baras) "Modal Security," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. [Penultimate Draft]
Forthcoming "Metaphysical and Absolute Possibility," Synthese (special issue on modal epistemology). [Penultimate Draft]
Forthcoming "Objectivity and Evaluation," with a reply from Ramon Das, Christopher Cowie and Richard Rowland (eds.), Companions in Guilt Arguments in Metaethics. Routledge. [Penultimate Draft]
Forthcoming "Epistemic Non-Factualism and Methodology," Michael Klenk (ed.), Higher-Order Evidence and Moral Epistemology. Routledge. [Penultimate Draft]
Forthcoming "The Ethics-Mathematics Analogy," Philosophy Compass. [Penultimate Draft]
Forthcoming "Undermining Belief in Consciousness," for an author-meets-critics symposium on David Chalmers' "The Meta-Problem of Consciousness," with replies from Chalmers, Journal of Consciousness Studies. [Penultimate Draft]
Forthcoming "Realism, Objectivity and Evaluation," David Kaspar (ed.), Explorations in Ethics. Palgrave. [Penultimate Draft]
Forthcoming "From Non-Usability to Non-Factualism," for an author-meets-critics symposium on Holly M. Smith's Making Morality Work, with replies from Smith, Analysis. [Penultimate Draft]
2019 "Modal Objectivity," Noûs. Vol. 53. 266-295. [Penultimate Draft]
2017 "Objectivity and Reliability," for an author-meets-critics symposium on Thomas Scanlon's Being Realistic About Reasons, with replies from Scanlon, Canadian Journal of Philosophy. Vol. 47. 841-855. [Penultimate Draft]
2017 "Debunking Arguments: Mathematics, Logic, and Modal Security," Robert Richards and Michael Ruse (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Penultimate Draft]
2016 "What is the Benacerraf Problem?," Fabrice Pataut (ed.), New Perspectives on the Philosophy of Paul Benacerraf: Truth, Objects, Infinity. Dordrecht: Springer. [Penultimate Draft] [Review in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews]
2016 "Debunking and Dispensability," Neil Sinclair and Uri Leibowitz (eds.), Explanation in Ethics and Mathematics: Debunking and Dispensability. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Penultimate Draft] [Review in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews]
2015 "Objectivity in Ethics and Mathematics," Ben Colburn (ed.), Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, The Virtual Issue, No. 3 (Methods in Ethics). [Penultimate Draft]
2015 "Justification and Explanation in Mathematics and Morality," Russ Shafer-Landau (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Vol. 10. New York: Oxford University Press. [Penultimate Draft]
2014 "Moral Epistemology: The Mathematics Analogy," Noûs. Vol. 48. 238-255. [Updated Version] [Summary from Mathematical Reviews] [Reprinted in Sarah Aronowitz, Patrick Grim, Zoe Johnson King, and Nicholas Serafin (eds.), Philosopher's Annual, Vol. 34.]
2013 "What is Absolute Undecidability?," Noûs. Vol. 47. 467-481. [Corrigendum | Corrected Version]
2012 "Morality and Mathematics: The Evolutionary Challenge," Ethics. Vol. 122. 313-340. [Penultimate Draft] [Discussion at PEA Soup] [Reprinted in Chloe Armstrong, Patrick Grim, Nils-Hennes Stear, and Patrick Shirreff (eds.), Philosopher's Annual, Vol. 32.]
2008 "Multiple Reductions Revisited," Philosophia Mathematica. Vol. 16. 244-255. [A self-contained version of Chapter 2 of my undergraduate thesis.]

Graduate Teaching

What is Mathematics? (with Haim Gaifman), Fall 2022
Foundations of Metalogic, Spring 2022
Metaphysics of Physics, Spring 2021 [Zeno I & II, McTaggart, SR, GR, QM, Bell, Math, Logic, QFT]
Noncognitivism, Fall 2021
Advanced Topics in the Philosophy of Mind (with Chris Peacocke), Spring 2020
Philosophy of Mathematics, Fall 2019 [Constructibility & Forcing]
Metaethics: Realism, Objectivity & Evaluation, Spring 2019
Philosophy of Logic, Fall 2018
Addiction and Agency (with Kathryn Tabb), Fall 2016
Lectures on Modality (RUC, Beijing), Summer 2015
Metaphysics: Modal Objectivity, Spring 2015
Mathematical Logic, Spring 2014 [Incompleteness, Undecidability & Undefinability]
Metaphysics: Meta-Modality, Fall 2012
Thesis Preparation Seminar, Summer 2012
Epistemology: The Reliability Challenge, Winter 2011
Set Theory (Independent Study), Winter 2011
Graduate Logic, Spring 2010 - 2011

Undergraduate Teaching

Methods and Problems, Spring 2017, 2020 [Handout on Mind-Body Problem]
Metaphysics, Summer 2012, Winter, 2013, Fall 2019 - 2020 [Outline of QM & SR]
Epistemology, Spring 2019, Spring 2021
Identity and Value, Fall 2018
Foundations of Modal Metaphysics, Fall 2015
Contemporary Civilization in the West II (Hume to Foucault), Spring 2015 - 2017
Contemporary Civilization in the West I (Plato to Locke), Fall 2014 - 2016
David's Lewis's On the Plurality of Worlds, Fall 2013
Life, Death, and Morality (with Toby Handfield), Winter 2013, Summer 2012
Time, Self, and Mind (with Josh May), Fall 2012, Winter 2011
Introducing Logic (with Monima Chadha), Fall 2012, Winter 2011
Logic, Summer 2007, 2010
Introduction to Philosophy, Summer 2008
Philosophical Ethics, Spring 2008
Comparative Ancient Philosophy (with Jennifer Logan), Summer 2007
Life and Death (with Melis Erdur), Summer 2006