I’ll be starting as a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Birmingham in September 2013. I completed my Ph.D. philosophy at the University of Michigan. My dissertation was on the meaning of normative language—especially deontic modals—and how incorporating insights from philosophy of language and linguistics can illuminate classic questions in normative and metanormative theory.

You can email me at asilk@umich.edu.

SELECTED PAPERS

(Please do not cite or quote without permission. Comments welcome.)

1. 1.“Truth-Conditions and the Meanings of Ethical Terms” (ethics, language). Forthcoming in R. Shafer-Landau (Ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Vol. 8.
   

2. 2.“Evidence-Sensitivity in Weak Necessity Deontic Modals” (language). Forthcoming. Journal of Philosophical Logic.
   

3. 3.“Modality, Weights, and Inconsistent Premise Sets” (language). In A. Chereches (Ed.), Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 22, pp. 43-64. 2012.
   

4. 4.“‘Ought’ and ‘Must’: Some Philosophical Therapy”: language, ethics. (This is an expanded   and revised version of my SALT paper on ‘ought’ and ‘must’ that addresses additional philosophical issues.)
   

5. 5.“How to Be an Ethical Expressivist”: ethics, language
   

6. 6.“Why ‘Ought’ Detaches”: ethics
   

7. 7.“Nietzschean Constructivism”: ethics, history
   

8. 8.“Modality, Weights, and Inconsistent Premise Sets”: language. (This is an expanded version of the section of my SALT paper on weights and priorities.)
   

9. 9.“Deontic Conditionals: Weak and Strong”: language
   

10. 10.“Agent-Relative Teleology, Conditional Preferences, and Centered Worlds”: ethics
    

11. 11.“The Progressive and Verbs of Creation”: language
    

12. 12. “Anankastic Conditionals in Context”: language (down for revision)
    

13. 13. “Ought-to-Do, Good, and Control”: language, metaethics (down for revision)
    

14. 14. “Standards and Scoreboards”: language (in preparation)
    

BOOK REVIEWS

1. 1. Review of R. Shafer-Landau (Ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Vol. 6. Ethics 122(3): 622–627.