Errol Lord
Cohen Hall 423
Ethical Theory (metaethics, normative ethics, practical reason), Epistemology, Philosophy of Action, Aesthetics, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Perception
I came to Penn in 2014 after a post-doc at Franklin & Marshall College and graduate school at the University of Nebraska and Princeton. I work in many areas of normative philosophy, from ethical theory to epistemology to aesthetics. I've written two monographs with Oxford University Press. The Importance of Being Rational appeared in 2018 and Knowing the Normative World: On the Epistemologies of Ethics and Aesthetics will appear in late 2025 or 2026. Lately I have been working on the ethics of love, the epistemology of suspension of judgment, the nature and importance of beauty, and, oddly, how all of these things converge.
I also write art criticism, mostly on my substack Critical Chunks, which you can check out here.
Full details can be found on my website.
Ph.D. Princeton
Knowing the Normative World: On the Epistemologies of Ethics and Aesthetics, Oxford University Press, forthcoming
The Importance of Being Rational, Oxford University Press, 2018
"Of Soulmates and Old Spouses: How to Be a Romantic Kantian about the Ethics of Love", Ergo, forthcoming
"What Would Beauty Have to Be to Save the World?" Philosophical Topics, 2025
"On Suspending Properly" (with Kurt Sylvan), Propositional and Doxastic Justification, Routledge, 2022
"The Nature of Perceptual Expertise and the Rationality of Criticism" Ergo, 2020
"Reasons: Wrong, Right, Normative, Fundamental" (with Kurt Sylvan) Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy, 2019
"What You're Rationally Required to Do and What You Ought to Do (Are the Same Thing!)" Mind, 2017
"On the Intellectual Conditions for Responsibility: Acting for the Right Reasons, Conceptualization, and Credit" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2017
"Prime Time (for the Basing Relation)" (with Kurt Sylvan) New Essays on the Basing Relation, 2019, edited by J. Adam Carter and Patrick Bondy
Weighing Reasons (co-edited with Barry Maguire), 2016, Oxford University Press
"Acting for the Right Reasons, Abilities, and Obligations," 2015, Oxford Studies in Metaethics v. 10