Gregory Strom

Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Pragmatic Foundations
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Education: Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh; Ph.D.
University of Chicago; B.A. with honors in philosophy 2002

Dissertation
“Multitasking, Consequentialism and Practical Imagination” I argue that the distinction between actions and their consequences cannot be robust enough to underwrite a substantive debate between consequentialism and intentionalism. These appear to be viable options for ethical philosophy because it appears that the primary function of ethics is to settle questions about what to do. But I argue that it is at least equally important for ethics to discover how to be moved to act in an ethical way, and that this can only be understood by investigating the role of imagination in an ethical life.

Publications

• “Multitasking” (under review)
• “In Defense of the Practical Imagination” (under review)

Papers Presented

• “The Argument from Failure”, University of Pittsburgh, Student-Faculty Colloquium, March 2008
• “Multitasking”, University of Pittsburgh, Dissertation Seminar, March 2009
• “In Defense of Daydreaming”, University of Pittsburgh, Dissertation Seminar, April 2010

Works in Progress

• “The Argument from Failure”
• “Multijustification”
• “Ings and Eds”