Eliot Watkins joined our research group

Eliot Watkins joined our research group to work on the LoDEx project (Logical Methods for Deontic Explanations). We’re very much looking forward to having him in our team! :-)

• Eliot Watkins (PostDoc, Wasserstraße, office 4/403)
  

  Eliot Watkins joined the research group as a postdoc in 2024 after completing a PhD in Philosophy at MIT. His research focuses on the nature of reasons and the semantics of normative natural language. Examples of some of the more unusual positions defended by Eliot in recent work include the claim that reasons to eat ham sandwiches needn’t be reasons to eat sandwiches, and the claim that there are normative reasons for smoke detectors to behave in some ways and not others. At Bochum, Eliot is working as a part of LoDEX (Logical Methods of Deontic Explanation) — a WEAVE-funded collaboration between Ruhr-University Bochum, TU Vienna and the University of Luxembourg. You can find out more about his research here.