Associate Professor | dunaway@umsl.edu | 314-516-6195
Billy Dunaway received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2013. He held a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Oxford for two years before joining the UMSL faculty in 2015. He works on various topics in ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of language. These include the fundamentality of ethical facts; practical reasoning and vagueness in ethics; and the relationship between the grounds of ethical facts and what we can know about them. His papers have appeared in Philosophical Studies, Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Perspectives, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and Oxford Studies in Metaethics, among other places.
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About William Dunaway
Billy Dunaway received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2013. He held a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Oxford for two years before joining the UMSL faculty in 2015. He works on various topics in ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of language. These include the fundamentality of ethical facts; practical reasoning and vagueness in ethics; and the relationship between the grounds of ethical facts and what we can know about them. His papers have appeared in Philosophical Studies, Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Perspectives, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and Oxford Studies in Metaethics, among other places.
| Present | Associate Professor, University of Missouri-St. Louis ‐ Department of Philosophy | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Grants
| 2017 - 2018 | Knowing Reality |
| University of Missouri Research Board - UM Research Board Grant |
Professional Service and Affiliations
| 2015 - Present | Pre-law Adviser, University of Missouri-St. Louis | 2016 - 2017 | Conference Organizer, Saint Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality (SLACRR) | 2014 - 2014 | Interviewer for Undergraduate Admissions, Sommerville College, University of Oxford | 2009 - 2012 | Research Assistant, David Manley | 2010 - 2011 | Editor, Philosopher's Annual | 2007 - 2008 | Philosophy Department Representative, Dean of Graduate Students' Committee, University of Southern California | 2007 - 2008 | Research Assistant, Scott Soames | 2007 - 2007 | Research Assistant, Jacob Ross | 2007 - 2007 | Research Assistant, Mark Schroeder | 2006 - 2007 | Secretary and Treasurer, Pegasus, University of Southern California Graduate Students' Committee |
Honors and Awards
- Department One-term Fellowship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Fall 2012
- Stevenson Prize, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Winter 2012
- Departmental One-term Fellowship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Winter 2012 and Fall 2011
- Weinberg Summer Fellowship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Summer 2011
- Rackham One-term Dissertation Fellowship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Winter 2011
- Departmental Fellowship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Fall 2009
- International Conference Travel Award, USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Summer 2008
- Merit Fellowship, University of Southern California, Fall 2006-Spring 2007
| August 2013 | PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor ‐ Philosophy | |
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| August 2006 - May 2009 | University of Southern California ‐ School of Philosophy | |
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| June 2005 | BA, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ‐ Department of Philosophy | |
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