Scott Timcke

I study puzzles arising from the peculiar tension between potential and actual states as these come to be reconciled by human consciousness and applied to political practices.

My current project focuses on the how moral thought accords legitimacy to the distribution of life chances. My approach is to see these distributions as informed by decisions between conflicting value-sets themselves grounded in differing conceptions of actual and potential states.

Thus, accordingly, to study the above one must cultivate a sensibility which integrates aspects of the philosophy language, mind, and action so as to be sensitive to how these differing conceptions are formed. Here minds, morals and justice are never far apart.

This approach is underscoring by a firm commitment to a naturalism while being frank about areas of uncertainty and things unknown.