User:Anthony Mohen

Member of the WikiProject Philosophy

I've just decided to start doing some work on the Derek Parfit article. Parfit is an Oxford philosopher of normative and meta-ethics, whose first book I am reading now and whose forthcoming book manuscript I read last summer. I also took a class with Parfit last Fall, so I'm familiar enough with his work to develop the article a little further.

My only other recent project has been editing the article on Carmen Leggio. Leggio was a jazz saxophonist, fairly well-known in the 50s and 60s, who died this Spring. He was a family friend, although this shouldn't bias the article in any way because there's nothing really contentious about him (other than subjective tastes about jazz saxophonists, but I'm not making any value judgments in the article).

In the past, I've made minor contributions to articles on Transcendental idealism and Daniel Dennett. Generally, my interests are Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Language, specifically in the early 20th Century (Russell, Wittgenstein) and Ordinary Language Philosophy (J.L. Austin), and Ancient Philosophy, although I haven't made any serious contributions to these areas of Wikipedia yet.

Currently, I'm a J.D. Student at NYU. I studied Philosophy as a graduate student at Tufts University (MA 2008). Prior to that I studied Philosophy and Classical Studies at Bard College.