Brendan de Kenessey

Brendan de Kenessey

Brendan

Brendan de Kenessey received his PhD in Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Spring 2017 before joining the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics as a Postdoctoral Fellow-in-Residence. He works in moral philosophy. De Kenessey's research aims to show how we can illuminate a wide range of moral phenomena by appreciating the pervasive role that the activity of joint decision-making (or joint practical deliberation, as he calls it) plays in our social interactions. His dissertation argues that several speech acts that have the power to change our moral obligations - promises, offers, commands, requests, and consent - are all best understood as moves within the activity of joint practical deliberation. While at the Center, de Kenessey plans to develop and extend this theoretical framework, with a particular focus on exploring its applications to topics in political philosophy.

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