• Richard Chappell

Richard Yetter Chappell, PhD

Biosketch

I'm interested in moral philosophy broadly construed, from metaethics to applied ethics. My dissertation defended Consequentialism against character-based objections, e.g. that the consequentialist agent would treat people as mere means, as fungible "receptacles of value". In other work I have defended non-naturalist moral realism, and explored its relation to anti-physicalism in the philosophy of mind. While at Penn, I will be working on health policy and the ethics of allocating scare medical resources.

Selected Publications

Chappell, R.:

'Fittingness: The Sole Normative Primitive', forthcoming in The Philosophical Quarterly.

Chappell, R.:

'Knowing What Matters', forthcoming in P. Singer (ed.), Does Anything Really Matter? Parfit on Objectivity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Chappell, R., Yetter-Chappell, H.:

'Mind-Body Meets Metaethics: A Moral Concept Strategy' forthcoming in Philosophical Studies.

Education

Princeton University, PhD, Philosophy

Australian National University, BA (hons), Philosophy

University of Canterbury, BA, Philosophy

CV

Richard Yetter Chappell CV

Links

Philosophy, et cetera | Providing the questions for all of life's answers.

Giving What We Can | Giving is often easier than people think. In fact, research suggests that helping others tends to make you happier. And you’re still likely to be in the wealthiest 10% of the world population.