Z Quanbeck is an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow at NYU’s Center for Bioethics. Prior to joining the NYU Center for Bioethics, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Philosophy and Religion in the Princeton University Center for Human Values. He completed his PhD in Philosophy at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2023.
His research lies at the intersection of ethics, epistemology, and 19th-century philosophy, focusing specifically on the ethics of belief: that is, how ethical considerations affect what we ought to believe. One part of his research aims to explain why what we believe about other people matters morally in interpersonal, political, and clinical contexts. A second component of his research develops an account of how evidential and practical (i.e., moral and prudential) considerations interact to determine what we ought to believe, when we ought to inquire, and which emotions we ought to have. A third branch of his research addresses the history of the ethics of belief, focusing especially on the writings of Søren Kierkegaard.
