I’m a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at the University of Michigan. This Fall, I will be a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Notre Dame.

I work in ethics, moral psychology, and metaethics, though I am interested in social-political philosophy and history of ethics. I also think about “normative explanation”, what we are up to when we explain why a response is valuable or awful, fitting or groundless, right or wrong. This puts me in conversation with epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of action and history.

My advisors are Elizabeth Anderson, Sarah Buss, Peter Railton, and Brian Weatherson. Webb Keane, an anthropologist of ethics, is my cognate member.

Contact me at aiansari [at] umich [dot] edu.