tez.clark@nyu.edu | CV | PhilPeople
I'm a Ph.D. student in philosophy at New York University. I work primarily in epistemology (traditional, formal, and inquiry) and metaethics, and have additional interests in philosophy of language, the nature of agency, and metasemantics.
Before coming to NYU, I completed an M.Phil. in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Before that, I got my A.B. in Philosophy at Harvard College.
I am, on one side, an 江戸っ子 (edokko).
My dissertation concerns the nature and normative significance of (in)coherence—broadly construed to include things like logical inconsistency, epistemic akrasia, failures of instrumental rationality, and non-probabilistic credences, as well as fuzzier notions like being confused, hypocritical, or at war with oneself.
2025. "Incoherence and Analyticity." Philosophical Studies. [link]
"Towards a Relational View of Incoherence." Provisionally forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Metaethics.
A paper on success in inquiry [draft - comments welcome]
A paper on formal epistemologists' immodesty principle [handout - email me for a draft]
A paper developing an account of incoherence in terms of intelligibility
Logic | Autumn 2024; Summer 2020
Nature of Values (Metaethics) | Summer 2024
Epistemology | Summer 2023
Metaphysics | Summer 2022
Modal Logic | Autumn 2023
Metaphysics | Autumn 2022
Ethics and Society | Spring 2022
Political Philosophy | Autumn 2021