Daniel Story

Lecturer

Contact Information

• E-mail: dstory@calpoly.edu

• Website: danielstory.net

Fields

• Ethics 
• Philosophy of Mind (Action and Agency) 
• Feminist Philosophy

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Education

• Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of California, Santa Barbara (2020) 
• M.A. in Philosophy, University of California, Santa Barbara (2017) 
• B.A. in Philosophy, University of Kentucky (2013) 
• A.A., Bluegrass Community and Technical College (2011)

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Courses Taught

• Intro Ethics 
• Critical Thinking  
• Theory of Knowledge 
• Philosophy of Mind 
• Metaphysics 
• Feminist Ethics 
• Applied Feminist Ethics
• Ethics, Science, and Technology

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Academic Publications

• “Life and Death Without the Present.” Journal of Ethics, 26, pp. 193-207, 2022.
• “Review of Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility, Volume 6.” Journal of Moral Philosophy, 18(6), pp. 678-681, 2021.
• “Moral luck in team-based health care” (with Catelynn Kenner), Nursing Philosophy, 22(1), 2021.
• “Joint action without robust theory of mind,” Synthese 198, pp. 5009-5026, 2021.
• “Interpersonal Moral Luck and Normative Entanglement,” Ergo 6(21), pp. 601-616, 2019.
• Essays Concerning the Social Dimensions of Human Agency. University of California, Santa Barbara (Dissertation), 2020.

 

 

Public Philosophy Publications

• “Were Parts of Your Mind Made in a Factory?” Prindle Post, 2022.
• “Interrogating the Sunk Cost Fallacy.” Prindle Post, 2022.
• “The Curious Case of LaMDA, the AI that Claimed to be Sentient.” Prindle Post, 2022.
• “Corporate Activism and Non-Ideal Democracy.” Prindle Post, 2022.
• “Cryonics: The Trap Objection.” Prindle Post, 2022.
• “No Fun and Games.” Prindle Post, 2022.
• “Reflections on Communal Annihilation or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” Prindle Post, 2022.
• “The Ethics of Deepfake Pornography.” Public Ethics Blog, 2022.
• “A proposal for dealing with COVID-related externalities.” PEA Soup Blog, 2020.
• “Lucky Till Now.” Santa Barbara Independent, 2020.