I am an assistant professor of philosophy at Claremont McKenna College. You can email me at rbasu@cmc.edu.

​The central theme of my work is that when it comes to what we should believe, morality is not voiceless. What we owe each other is not just a matter of what we do or what we say, but also what we believe. 

​You can read more about my work in this short Aeon article, "To avoid moral failure, don’t see people as Sherlock does".

​If you came looking for the dog, you can find pictures of her here.​

Publications

1. “A Tale of Two Doctrines: Moral Encroachment and Doxastic Wronging”, in Applied Epistemology, ed. Jennifer Lackey. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.
2. “The Specter of Normative Conflict: Does Fairness Require Inaccuracy?”, in An Introduction to Implicit Bias: Knowledge, Justice, and the Social Mind, eds. Erin Beeghly and Alex Madva. Routledge. 2020.
3. “Radical Moral Encroachment: The Moral Stakes of Racist Beliefs”, Philosophical Issues 29(1):9-23. 2019.
4. “The Wrongs of Racist Beliefs”, Philosophical Studies 176(9):2497–2515. 2019.
5. “What We Epistemically Owe To Each Other”, Philosophical Studies 176(4):915-931. 2019.
6. “Doxastic Wronging”, in Pragmatic Encroachment in Epistemology, eds. Brian Kim and Matthew McGrath. Routledge, pp. 181-205. 2019. (co-written with Mark Schroeder)
7. “Can Beliefs Wrong?”, Philosophical Topics 46(1):1-17. 2018.

Invited work in progress

1. A paper on doxastic wronging and its various critics for Philosophy Compass
2. A chapter on the ethics of belief for the third edition of the Blackwell Companion to Epistemology (ed. Kurt Sylvan)

Other work in progress

1. A paper on doxastic wronging and norms of inquiry
2. A paper on varieties of epistemic oppression and skepticism
3. A paper on normative expectations and the various roles expectations play in interpersonal relations

Upcoming talks and conferences:

• Cal Poly Pomona, University of San Diego, Central APA, University of Toronto, Oakland University, Trinity College Dublin, UT Austin, St Andrews, NOMOS at Harvard’s Safra Ethics Center, UNC Chapel Hill

Last updated: Feb 11 2021