Presenters & Advisers
Mark Joseph '06 
Can Kant Accommodate Supererogation?
Can Immanuel Kant's ethics accommodate the moral category of the supererogatory, that is, the class of actions which typically go beyond the call of duty and exemplify human beings at their very best? That’s the question senior Mark Joseph set out to answer in his investigation of the philosopher’s ethical framework.
"The roughhewn conclusion," he says, is that Kant can accommodate the supererogatory, in a limited sense. But "for a more in-depth analysis of my conclusion, go to the philosophy department's undergraduate research event."
When Joseph is not knee-deep in intellectual reasoning, he is studying another one of his many interests: scratch baking.
