Assistant Professor
Office: Leonard 505L
Email: leo.yan@iup.edu
Education
PhD, Brown University
MA, University of Missouri
MSc, London School of Economics and Political Science
BA, Boston University
Courses
PHIL 122 Contemporary Moral Issues
PHIL 130 Introduction to Biomedical Ethics
PHIL 270 Ethics and the Environment
PHIL 320 Ethical Theory
PHIL 323 Political Philosophy
PHIL 450 Philosophy of Law
Professional Interests
Ethics, Practical Reason, Decision Theory
Select Publications
"Seeming Incomparability and Rational Choice." Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (2022) 21: 347-371.
Select Presentations
"Combining Determinate and Nondeterminate Values." Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society, 2022.
"Seeming Incomparability and Rational Choice." American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, 2019.
"Parity, Incomparability, and Categorical Judgments." American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, 2018.
"Externalist Accounts of Racial Epithets." American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, 2013.
"The Connection Between Political Legitimacy and Justification." Central States Philosophical Association, 2011.