N G Laskowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 978229 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N G Laskowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | N G |
| FAMILY NAME | Laskowski |
| SIGNATURE | LASKOWSKI N G |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Long Beach |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8349-8737 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gender Unrealism
While intimately familiar, gender eludes theorizing. We argue that well-known challenges to gender’s analysis originate in a subtle ambiguity: questions about gender sometimes express questions about gender categories themselves (e.g., womanhood, manhood, and so on), while at other times expressing questions about what makes someone a member of these categories. Distinguishing these questions accentuates gender’s connections to morality, making a…
Skepticism about ought simpliciter skepticism
Normative pluralists claim that there cannot be facts about what agents ought or ‘ought simpliciter’ to do when an agent’s reasons from different normative systems (e.g. morality, prudence, aesthetics, etc.) don’t all support the same action. Moral philosophers have embraced the normative pluralist’s claim since at least Sidgwick appeared to do so toward the end of the nineteenth century. I cast doubt on the normative pluralist’s claim by highlig…
AI language models cannot replace human research participants
Categorical phenomenalism about sexual orientation
What is sexual orientation? The contemporary consensus among philosophers is that it is a disposition. Unsurprisingly, recent debates about the metaphysics of sexual orientation are almost entirely intramural. Behavioral dispositionalists argue that sexual orientation is a disposition to behave sexually. Desire dispositionalists argue that it is a disposition to desire sexually. We argue that sexual orientation is not best understood in terms of …
Moral Constraints on Gender Concepts
Moral Realism, Speech Act Diversity, and Expressivism
In his highly engaging book, Speech and Morality, Terence Cuneo advances a transcendental argument for moral realism from the fact that we speak. After summarizing the major moves in the book, I argue that its master argument (Section I) is not as friendly to non-naturalist versions of moral realism as Cuneo advertises and (Section II) relies on a diet of insufficient types of speech acts. I also argue (Section III) that expressivists have compel…
Non-Analytical Naturalism and the Nature of Normative Thought
Metaethical non-analytical naturalism consists in the metaphysical thesis that normative properties are identical with or reducible to natural properties and the epistemological thesis that we cannot come to a complete understanding of the nature of normative properties via conceptual analysis alone. In On What Matters, Derek Parfit argues that non-analytical naturalism is either false or incoherent. In section 1, I show that his argument for thi…
Categorical phenomenalism about sexual orientation
What is sexual orientation? The contemporary consensus among philosophers is that it is a disposition. Unsurprisingly, recent debates about the metaphysics of sexual orientation are almost entirely intramural. Behavioral dispositionalists argue that sexual orientation is a disposition to behave sexually. Desire dispositionalists argue that it is a disposition to desire sexually. We argue that sexual orientation is not best understood in terms of …
Non-Analytical Naturalism and the Nature of Normative Thought
Metaethical non-analytical naturalism consists in the metaphysical thesis that normative properties are identical with or reducible to natural properties and the epistemological thesis that we cannot come to a complete understanding of the nature of normative properties via conceptual analysis alone. In On What Matters, Derek Parfit argues that non-analytical naturalism is either false or incoherent. In section 1, I show that his argument for thi…
Moral Realism, Speech Act Diversity, and Expressivism
In his highly engaging book, Speech and Morality, Terence Cuneo advances a transcendental argument for moral realism from the fact that we speak. After summarizing the major moves in the book, I argue that its master argument (Section I) is not as friendly to non-naturalist versions of moral realism as Cuneo advertises and (Section II) relies on a diet of insufficient types of speech acts. I also argue (Section III) that expressivists have compel…
Moral Constraints on Gender Concepts
Categorical phenomenalism about sexual orientation
What is sexual orientation? The contemporary consensus among philosophers is that it is a disposition. Unsurprisingly, recent debates about the metaphysics of sexual orientation are almost entirely intramural. Behavioral dispositionalists argue that sexual orientation is a disposition to behave sexually. Desire dispositionalists argue that it is a disposition to desire sexually. We argue that sexual orientation is not best understood in terms of …
AI language models cannot replace human research participants
Gender Unrealism
While intimately familiar, gender eludes theorizing. We argue that well-known challenges to gender’s analysis originate in a subtle ambiguity: questions about gender sometimes express questions about gender categories themselves (e.g., womanhood, manhood, and so on), while at other times expressing questions about what makes someone a member of these categories. Distinguishing these questions accentuates gender’s connections to morality, making a…
Skepticism about ought simpliciter skepticism
Normative pluralists claim that there cannot be facts about what agents ought or ‘ought simpliciter’ to do when an agent’s reasons from different normative systems (e.g. morality, prudence, aesthetics, etc.) don’t all support the same action. Moral philosophers have embraced the normative pluralist’s claim since at least Sidgwick appeared to do so toward the end of the nineteenth century. I cast doubt on the normative pluralist’s claim by highlig…
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Metaphysics (2 works) · Naturalism (2 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (2 works)