Eli Benjamin Israel

Thanks, Chris! What a compliment

Eli Benjamin Israel, Breaking Trust and Relocating Reactive Feelings - PhilPapers In this paper, I argue that reactive feelings such as betrayal and personal disappointment are not inherent to the attitude of trust. Instead, such feelings are better understood as responses to ...

Super excited to share that my paper "Breaking Trust and Relocating Reactive Feelings" is forthcoming in Episteme!

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2026, you don't look promising. Surprise me.

Coming back to this weird place, not sure why, but I guess it still serves for shameless self-promotion, so...
My "On Moral Perfection: An Atemporal Reading of Kant's Postulate of Immortality" is forthcoming in the European Journal of Philosophy — philpapers.org/rec/ISROMP

To Philosophers of Easy Virtue (guest post) - Daily Nous "My experiences have led me to believe that one of the best things that men in a professional field can do for feminism is to learn to take sexual and romantic rejection well." That's one of the obser...

The philosophy of s3x community is so niche I could guess the author by sentence three lol

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Couldn't straighten my arms after a workout, and when I searched for a fix, I found out that more exercise might help. Is this the adult equivalent of hair of the dog?

Officially published! My paper “Caring for Valid Sexual Consent” is out in the new issue of Hypatia!

In this paper, I argue that consent, to be valid, requires trust, and in intimate contexts that trust is warranted through care.

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Eli Benjamin Israel, Navigating Vagueness: Rule-Following and The Scope of Trust - PhilPapers In this paper, I address a fundamental challenge in the philosophy of trust: how to account for trustee discretion in scenarios that fall outside explicitly defined expectations. I argue that this ...

Many congratulations to PhD candidate Eli Benjamin Israel on his recent publication "Navigating vagueness: Rule-following and the scope of trust" in The Philosophical Quarterly. You can read a preprint of his paper on PhilPapers at the link below:
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Conflicts of trust — CFCP One is not born trustworthy but becomes trustworthy through practice. When we engage in trusting relationships of all kinds, we develop a better grasp of what those relationships are, what particular ...

What exactly happens when two people disagree about what they can trust one another to do? I discuss this form of interpersonal conflict on the blog of Mark Schroeder's Conceptual Foundations of Conflict Project

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Revising a paper really trying to be less of am as*hole toward the opposing views.

Karl was a man of great kindness and intellectual generosity. Though I wasn't his student, he took time to engage with my paper that drew on his work on Kant’s "The End of All Things", offering supportive feedback that meant the world to me.

The proper way to celebrate Kant’s birthday today is by taking an afternoon walk. Also getting drunk. He liked that too.

Admins will be admins...

One day I was talking to a girl, and she said she liked folk music. I said, "I did get some Joni Mitchell vibes from you," to which she responded, "Taylor Swift, actually"

I was watching my son in Jiu Jitsu, and suddenly I hear all the kids shouting, "Korsgaard!"
I asked the parent next to me, "What did they just say?" to which he responded: "close guard"...

I trained the kid to answer "Led Zeppelin" whenever asked what's the greatest band of all time. My work is done.

My "A Kantian Account of Moral Trust" — Winner of the 2024 North American Kant Society Markus Herz Essay Prize — is finally available (open access) in Kantian Review >>> www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Oz (5 years old): "Everything I look at gets in my mind."

Meeting Your Match: Navigating the World of Modern Dating - WHYY We explore the complicated world of modern dating, and what science has to say about how to find love.

APA member Eli Benjamin Israel spoke about AI, dating apps, trust, and consent on a recent episode of @whyythepulse.bsky.social (audio + transcript)
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Had a blast talking to The Pulse about the ethics of online dating, what flirtatious deception can be counted as fair game and what we owe to our fellow online daters.

For all you folks that like me teach in Philadelphia/South Jersey - good luck teaching today!

Navigating vagueness: Rule-following and the scope of trust Abstract. In this paper, I address a fundamental challenge in the philosophy of trust: how to account for trustee discretion in scenarios that fall outside

"Navigating Vagueness: Rule-Following and The Scope of Trust " is now published online in The Philosophical Quarterly >>> academic.oup.com/pq/advance-a...

Second week of my intro to Ethics, I just love to play with their minds as I present them with 30 variations of the trolley problem

It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness.

Shut up, Nietzsche.

Academic superpower: Get more citations on your old papers by citing them in your new ones

Eli Benjamin Israel, Navigating Vagueness: Rule-Following and The Scope of Trust - PhilPapers In this paper, I address a fundamental challenge in the philosophy of trust: how to account for trustee discretion in scenarios that fall outside explicitly defined expectations. I argue that this ...

Kicking off 2025 with some good news - Very proud to share that my paper "Navigating Vagueness: Rule-Following and The Scope of Trust" is now forthcoming in the Philosophical Quarterly!

philpapers.org/rec/ISRNVR

The most important thing to learn is to think for yourself.

The second most important thing is that just because an idea is yours, that doesn't make it not stupid.

Based on the Eastern APA almost all philosophy is now Epistemology.

Why not doing both? Non-monogamous research is the real deal

Kant keeps drunk-dialing me for "just one more paper and we're done"