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Avram Hiller

 

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Office: NH 393E
Phone: 503-725-3507
Email:ahiller@pdx.edu

 

BIOGRAPHY

Avram Hiller is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Portland State University. He received his Ph.D. from Duke University. Prior to coming to PSU (in 2008), he taught at Wake Forest University. He was also a visiting scholar in philosophy departments at the University of Arizona, Harvard, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Rutgers.
Avram has very broad-ranging interests in analytic philosophy. He works in philosophy of language and metaphysics (mostly on issues relating to vagueness), epistemology (analyzing knowledge, internalism/externalism), meta-ethics (moral realism/anti-realism/quasi-realism), normative ethics (consequentialism/deontology, axiology), and environmental ethics.

Outside of philosophy, he enjoys outdoor activities – running, hiking, camping, and nature photography. He listens to a lot of music and enjoys the local music scene in Portland. Although he did not have an illustrious basketball career, he won the 2012 PSU Campus Rec Three-Point Shootout. He plays guitar and has been creating musical adaptations of poems by E.E. Cummings (who, contrary to public impression, did capitalize his name in most contexts). Avram is mostly vegan and can tell you all about the great vegan places around town.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

“The Best Incentives in Combating Climate Change,” Ethics, Policy, and Environment, forthcoming.
“The Unusual Logic of Hurka’s Recursive Account,” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, March 2012.
"Climate Change and Individual Responsibility," The Monist 94(3), July 2011.
"Morally Significant Effects of Ordinary Individual Actions," Ethics, Policy, and Environment 14(1), March 2011.
"Safety and Epistemic Luck" with Ram Neta, Synthese 158(3), October 2007.