Simon Rippon

Welcome!

Welcome!

I'm a Graduate Student in the  Department of Philosophy at Harvard University. I'm writing a dissertation that criticizes moral realism based on epistemological arguments and argues for an alternative, response-dependent, view of moral properties. I'm also interested in normative ethics, practical reasoning, political philosophy, philosophy of law, and semantics and pragmatics in the philosophy of language.

Teaching

These are the courses I have taught (or taken part in teaching) at Harvard. You will find some of the handouts I wrote on the pages of those linked.
Philosophy 12: Introduction to the Philosophy of Law (Spring 2006)
Philosophy 172: The History of Modern Moral Philosophy (Fall 2005)

Philosophy 16: Objectivity and Subjectivity in Ethics (Spring 2004)
Moral Reasoning 33: Issues in Ethics (Fall 2003)
Phil 98 Junior Tutorial: Ethics and the Fact/Value Distinction (Spring 2003)
Philosophy 121: The Ethical Thought of Hume (Spring 2003)
Philosophy 171: Contemporary Political Philosophy (Fall 2002)
Moral Reasoning 60: Reason and Morality (Spring 2002)
Moral Reasoning 66: Moral Reasoning about Social Protest (Fall 2001 / Spring 2007)

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Contact

Email:
Office: Emerson Hall 102
Office phone: (617) 495-4669
 
Simon Rippon
Department of Philosophy
Emerson Hall 208,
Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA 02138,
USA.