Dan Coren

Dan Coren, PhD

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Biography

Dr. Daniel Coren earned a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Colorado (Boulder) in 2019. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor at McMaster University (2019-2022) and Skidmore College (2022-23). He is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University.

He has taught over thirty courses in Philosophy at the college/university level.

His research focuses on free will, agency, and responsibility. He also maintains research interests in Aristotle's account of agency and related topics in ethics.

Dr. Coren won a game of chess, without looking at the chessboard, against one of his classes. He lost to another class the following year (also without looking at the board). He regrets not quitting while he was ahead. But he will try again.

Education

  • PhD, Philosophy, 2019, University of Colorado Boulder

Courses Taught

Taught over 35 courses over the past 15 years

  • Ethics
  • History of Philosophy
  • Logic
  • Moral Psychology
  • Agency
  • Responsibility
  • Free Will
  • Aristotle
  • Classical Indian Philosophy

Publications

  • Accepting Immortality,American Philosophical Quarterly, forthcoming.
  • Non-linear Immortality,Res Philosophica, forthcoming.
  • Equal Desires and Self-Control,Inquiry, forthcoming.
  • Giving Up Gratitude,Analytic Philosophy, 2025, 66: 22-36.
  • Who We Are, What We Do,Southwest Philosophy Review, forthcoming.
  • Blame-Free Desert: Śāntideva’s Actual-Sequence View,Res Philosophica, 2024, 101: 835-841.
  • Moral Responsibility Must Look Back,American Philosophical Quarterly, 2024, 61: 255-263.
  • Sympathetic Joy,Erkenntnis, 2024, 89: 3275-3285.
  • Consistent Desires and Climate Change,Analytic Philosophy, 2024, 65: 241-255
  • Resentment, Parenting, and Strawson’s Compatibilism,Erkenntnis, 2023, 88: 43-65.
  • Testing for Intrinsic Value, for Us as We Are,Inquiry, 2023, 66: 773-798.
  • Indecision and Buridan’s Principle,Synthese, 2022, 200: 1–18.
  • Willpower and Well-beingThought, 2022, 11: 114-121.
  • Zooming Irresponsibly Down the Slippery Slope,Analysis, 2021, 81: 396–402.
  • Anger and Absurdity,Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2021, 24: 717–32.
  • Neither Pardon nor Blame,Analytic Philosophy, 2021, 62: 165–83.
  • Aristotle on Flight: Air as an External Resting Point,Rhizomata, 2021, 9: 123–38.
  • On the Practicality of Virtue Ethics,Journal of Value Inquiry, 2021, 1-24.
  • Aristotle on Motion in Incomplete Animals,Apeiron, 2020, 53: 285–314.
  • Non-symmetric Awe: Why it Matters Even if We Don’t,Philosophia, 2020, 49: 217–33.
  • No Problem of Consistent Incompatible Desires: A Reply to Baumann,Acta Analytica, 2020, 36: 465–74.
  • Reply: Baumann, P. 2021. “There Is Still a Problem of Consistent Incompatibility: A Response to Coren,Acta Analytica, 36: 475–7.
  • Individually Sufficient and Disjunctively Necessary Conditions for Moral Responsibility,Acta Analytica, 2020, 36: 501–15, co-authored with G. Young.
  • Evaluating Epistemic Virtues,Synthese, 2019, 198: 1569–78.
  • Aristotle on Self-Change in Plants,Rhizomata, 2019, 7: 33–62.
  • Epistemic Conservatism and Bare Beliefs,Synthese, 2019, 198: 743–56.
  • Freedom, Gratitude, and Resentment: Olivi and Strawson,Res Philosophica, 2019, 96: 1–21.
  • Aristotle Against (Unqualified) Self-motion: Physics VII 1 α241b35–242a49 / β241b25–242a15,Ancient Philosophy, 2019, 39: 363–80.
  • Alternate Possibilities and Moral Asymmetry,Acta Analytica, 2018, 33: 145–59.
  • Making Sense of the Sentence: Aristotle’s EN 1094a18–22,Journal of Philosophical Research, 2018, 43: 205–22.
  • Always Choose to Live or Choose to Always Live,Southwest Philosophy Review, 2018, 34: 89–104.
  • Why Does Aristotle Defend the Principle of Non-Contradiction Against its Contrary?The Philosophical Forum, 2018, 49: 39–59.
  • On Young’s Version of the Principle of Alternate Possibilities,Philosophia, 2017, 45: 585–94.
  • Anthropocentric Biocentrism in a Hybrid,Ethics and the Environment, 2015, 20: 48–60.