Education:
PhD in Philosophy, UNC-Chapel Hill (2023)
BA in Philosophy and History, St. Olaf College (2017)
Primary Research Areas:
Epistemology, Ethics, Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (esp. Kierkegaard)
Biography:
Z Quanbeck is an Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow at NYU’s Center for Bioethics. Prior to joining the NYU Center for Bioethics, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Philosophy and Religion in the Princeton University Center for Human Values. He completed his PhD in Philosophy at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2023. His research focuses primarily on the ethics of belief and its history.
Recent publications:
“Enticing Emotions,” Oxford Studies in Metaethics 21, provisionally forthcoming
“The Constitutive Inheritance Account of the Ethical Significance of Belief,” Ethics, forthcoming
“Doubt, Despair, and Doxastic Agency: Kierkegaard on Responsibility for Belief,” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, forthcoming
“A Permissivist Alternative to Encroachment” (w/ Alex Worsnip), Philosophers’ Imprint, forthcoming
“Resolving to Believe: Kierkegaard’s Direct Doxastic Voluntarism,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 109: 548-574, 2024
Website:
zquanbeck.com
