Tristram McPherson
Arts and Humanities · The Ohio State University
Publications
61
Citations
1,275
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
18
Publishing since 2008
Tristram McPherson works in philosophy, focusing on metaethics (the study of the nature and status of moral claims), the metaphysics of normativity (what grounds notions like 'ought' or 'reasons'), and conceptual ethics (how we should evaluate and revise our concepts). His work often examines whether moral and normative facts are objective, how they relate to non-normative reality, and methodological questions about how philosophical theories should be constructed and evaluated.
Publication output has fluctuated over the last decade, with a dip around 2022-2024 followed by a notable increase in 2025, suggesting an uneven but ongoing publication pace.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Meaninglessness and the ethics of lexical abandonment
Asian Journal of Philosophy · 2025
- The Supervenience of the Normative and the Autonomy of Essence
2025
- <i>Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves</i>
The Philosophical Review · 2025
- :<i>Philosophical Methodology: From Data to Theory</i>
Ethics · 2025
- Conceptual Ethics and the Categories of “Ideal Theory” and “Non-Ideal Theory” in Political Philosophy: A Proposal for Abandonment
Synthese Library/Synthese library · 2025
- How Much Does Knowledge Matter? Reality, Representation, and the Aims of Epistemology
2025
- The Fragmentation of Authoritative Normativity
2024
- Ground, Essence, and the Metaphysics of Metanormative Non-Naturalism
Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy · 2023
- Metaphysical Structure for Moral Realists
Oxford University Press eBooks · 2023
- Counterfactual genealogy and metaethics in Pettit’s <i>The Birth of Ethics</i>
Inquiry · 2023
- Normative standards and the epistemology of conceptual ethics
Inquiry · 2022
- Conceptual ethics, metaepistemology, and normative epistemology
KANT Social Sciences & Humanities · 2022
- Metaethics and the conceptual ethics of normativity
Inquiry · 2021
- Topic Continuity in Conceptual Engineering and Beyond
Inquiry · 2021
- Evaluation Turned on Itself
Oxford University Press eBooks · 2021
- Oxford University Press eBooks×7
- Inquiry×6
- Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy×3
- PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation)×2
- Canadian Journal of Philosophy×1
- Marcia Baron
Arts and Humanities · Indiana University
- Samuel Kahn
Arts and Humanities · Indiana University
- Eden Lin
Arts and Humanities · The Ohio State University
- Allen W. Wood
Arts and Humanities · Indiana University
- Christopher Yeomans
Arts and Humanities · Purdue University West Lafayette
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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