Tez Clark
I'm a PhD student in philosophy at New York University.
I work primarily in epistemology and metaethics and also have significant interests in the philosophy of mind, metasemantics, and the philosophy of science (especially understanding).
My advisors are Jane Friedman, Paul Boghossian, and Sharon Street.
Before coming to NYU, I completed an MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Before that, I got my A.B. in Philosophy at Harvard College. I'm from Tokyo, Japan.
research
dissertation
My dissertation concerns the normative significance of (in)coherence, broadly construed. By "incoherence," I include things like logical inconsistency, akrasia, failures of instrumental rationality, and non-probabilistic credences, as well as more inchoate notions like being confused, hypocritical, or at war with oneself.
teaching
sole instructor
Logic | Autumn 2024
Nature of Values (Metaethics) | Summer 2024
Epistemology | Summer 2023
Metaphysics | Summer 2022
Logic | Summer 2020
teaching assistant
Modal Logic | Autumn 2023
Metaphysics | Autumn 2022
Ethics and Society | Spring 2022
Political Philosophy | Autumn 2021