Hi, I’m Mike Deigan. I do philosophy.
Currently: Humboldt Postdoc at Freie Universität Berlin and research fellow at the Human Abilities Centre for Advanced Studies.
Previously: Mellon Postdoc at Rutgers, PhD at Yale, BPhil at Oxford, and BA at UNC Chapel Hill.
Here’s my cv. Here’s my blog. Here’s my teaching page. And here are some pictures of me and my dog.
My email is mikedeigan@protonmail.com
Publications
A Fitting Definition of Epistemic Emotions
(forthcoming) Philosophical Quarterly
Conceptual Limitations, Puzzlement, and Epistemic Dilemmas
(forthcoming) Philosophical Studies
Don’t Trust Fodor’s Guide in Monte Carlo:
Learning Concepts by Hypothesis Testing Without Circularity
(2023) Mind & Language
Bad Concepts, Bilateral Contents
(2022) Ergo
Offsetting Harm
(2022) Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Volume 12
Stupefying
(2022) Philosophers’ Imprint
A Plea for Inexact Truthmaking
(2020) Linguistics and Philosophy
Counterfactual Donkeys Don’t Get High
(2018) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22
Counterfactual Double Lives
(2017) Proceedings of the 21st Amsterdam Colloquium