University at Buffalo (UB)
Muldoon: Reimagining the Civic Commons
Ryan Muldoon discusses "How Diverse Places Build Trust and Support Democracy" in an interview featured on Medium's forum, Reimagining the Civic Commons. Medium is an open platform that has over 100 million readers who visit the site to find insightful and dynamic thinking. In the interview, Muldoon' observes: "Disagreement and debate — in which we are having a kind of democratic back and forth with people who think differently — helps us get a better idea of what the problems actually are in our society. It also helps us see whether we identify as having the same problems and then, what solutions to problems might look like." Read full interview.
Published March 14, 2023
Ryan Muldoon
PhD
Director of Undergraduate Studies; Associate Professor
Director
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Ethics
Education
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Ethics
Current Research
My research interests are primarily centered on the social organization of political, cultural, and scientific communities. In particular, I am interested in how these communities can and should respond to diversity. This focus on diversity is manifested most prominently in my three major projects: the first remakes social contract theory for very diverse societies, the second offers a normative-descriptive framework for analyzing the division of cognitive labor in science, and the third examines the emergence and persistence of social norms.
Courses
- Contemporary Moral Problems
- Law Morality Authority
Selected Publications
- Muldoon, Ryan. "Expanding the Justificatory Framework of Mill's Experiments in Living," Utilitas (forthcoming).
- Muldoon, Ryan; Lisciandra, Chiara; Colyvan, Mark; Sprenger, Jan; Martini, Carlo; Sillari, Giacomo. "Disagreement beyond the Veil of Ignorance,"Philosophical Studies 170: 3 (August , 2014): 377-94.
- Muldoon, Ryan; Borgida, Michael; Cuffaro, Michael. "The Conditions of Tolerance," Politics, Philosophy and Economics 11: 3 (August, 2012): 322-44.