Harvey Lederman

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I am a professor of philosophy at UT Austin. Until 2022, I was an assistant professor, and then a professor of philosophy at Princeton. You can view my CV here.

I have broad interests in contemporary philosophy and in the history of philosophy, especially in Wang Yangming (1472-1529). Current projects include work on population ethics for infinite populations, and on what modern large language models might teach us about the theory of meaning.

A full list of my published and working papers can be found below.

In January 2024, together with Johan Gustafsson, I organized a conference on completeness and incompleteness of preference and value. The website for this event is here.

In March 2022, together with P. J. Ivanhoe and Snow Xueyin Zhang, I organized an international conference on Wang Yangming, Wang Yangming and Ming Thought. You can view photos from the event on the "Highlights" page. A report on the conference, which also tells the story of how I started working on Wang Yangming, was published in 国际儒学.

In 2018, 2019 and 2020, I organized the Princeton Talks in Epistemology and Metaphysics (TEAM) conference series. You can find the programs for these three conferences here.

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