Soraya Gollop

My central research interests are in the area that intersects practical reason, ethics, moral psychology, action theory, and rational choice. I am primarily interested in how our desires relate to/cause our actions, and what implies about the nature of our desires and ourselves. This extends into ethics in the question of moral action, and the worry about whether or not there are, in Frankfurt's terms, 'unthinkable actions'. In rational choice, I am working on how the nature of our desires informs how we can think of dynamic choice - choice over time.

Work in Progress

"The Case for Resisting Temptation: why it is instrumentally rational to resist temptation."
"The Nature of Desire: beyond the three faces"
"Diachronic Choice - In Search of the Middle Path between Sophisticated and Resolute Choice"
"Constituting Your Self: how the stability of your beliefs and desires affects who you are"

Teaching

PHIL 1318: Contemporary Moral Problems