Matthew Seligman Department of Philosophy 5 Washington Place New York, NY 10003 Email:

MATTHEW SELIGMAN is a Ph.D. student is currently on leave from the Department. He graduated from Stanford University in 2002, where he majored in Mathematics and in Philosophy. He also received an MA in Philosophy at Stanford. Before coming to NYU, he spent a year in the Ph.D. program at the University of California at Berkeley. He is now a student at Stanford Law School.

Matthew's philosophical interests lie in moral philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, ethics, and political philosophy. He is most interested in the intersection of these fields, including metaethics, moral psychology, practical reason, and the philosophy of action. He is writing a dissertation in metaethics, on the error theory of morality and the representational character of moral experience.

His paper "Luck, Leverage, and Equality: A Bargaining Problem for Luck Egalitarians" appeared in Philosophy & Public Affairs, Vol. 35, No. 3. (2007), pp. 266–292.