(PhD, MIT, 2008)
Email: d.j.etlin [at] rug.nl
Postdoc, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen
My research is on rationality and philosophy of language. I am especially interested in issues at the intersection of those areas, including the use of conditionals in practical reasoning, and the role of vague preferences in communicative intentions. You can read some of my work in:
"The Problem of Noncounterfactual Conditionals", Philosophy of Science (2009) v. 76 n. 5: 676-688.
This year I gave talks at LMU, several places in Australia (Sydney, Melbourne, La Trobe, and ANU), the AAP meeting in Dunedin, and also commented at the Formal Epistemology Workshop. In 2010 I gave a talk on "desire as belief" at Leeds and at the Synthese conference held at Columbia. In Paris I further discussed the role of conditionals in practical deliberation. I gave a talk on vagueness and decision theory in Paris, Amsterdam, Regensburg, Prague, Ghent, Tilburg, Aberdeen, London, and Tokyo. In 2009 I gave talks at conferences in Leuven (the former host of the Formal Epistemology Project) and Oslo; I commented in Berlin, as well as at the Formal Epistemology Workshop and the Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference. In 2008 I gave talks at a variety of conferences in Europe (including Vagueness and Language Use and the Formal Epistemology Festival), the US (including the Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress), and Brazil.
Before moving to the Low Countries to focus on research, I taught metaphysics and epistemology. I have also assisted courses in ethics, at both the undergraduate and master's level, as well as logic.