Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2014-16) for a project on The Importance of Being Competent: Ethics and Epistemology (Hawley)
Being earnest is important, but it isn’t everything. Becoming trustworthy – as a practical agent and as a source of information – involves becoming competent, which in turn involves developing an awareness of one’s strengths and weaknesses. Central to good promise-making is the art of avoiding reckless promises, however well-intentioned. Central to treating other people with respect is the art of identifying their commitments, and fairly judging whether they are competent to meet those commitments. My project is an extended
philosophical investigation of these claims, resulting in a monograph
