I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. I work in ethics and moral psychology. Topics I’ve worked on include promises, joint action, addiction, moral obligation, directed obligation (obligations to individuals), and the philosophy of mental health. A central idea of my research is that we might come to better understand much of morality by taking a careful look at the activity of deciding together what to do.
Before coming to Toronto, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow-in-Residence at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. I received my Ph.D in philosophy at MIT in 2017.
Here is my CV.
You can reach me at brendan.dekenessey@utoronto.ca.
Recent highlights
“The Relation between Moral Reasons and Moral Requirement”, forthcoming at Erkenntnis
“Promises, Offers, Requests, Agreements”, Ergo 2023
“Depression and the Good”, Blog of the APA