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

resources for students

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