N. G. Laskowski

Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Maryland, College Park

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Research

My work in ethics, especially metaethics, focuses largely on what morality would have to be like to be a part of the natural world. In social philosophy, I work on the nature of gender, sexual orientation, and other categories of social significance.

My approach to philosophy is unapologetically collaborative, with a number of my papers having more than one author.

Teaching

I'm a 1st-generation college graduate (my parents didn't attend college, theirs didn't...), committed to making non-traditional students feel like they belong in the classroom.

Recent teaching assignments:

Fall 2025

Phil 341: Ethical Theory

Phil 338: Life's Meaning

Spring 2025

Parental leave

Personal

I was raised by my maternal grandma in a single-bedroom apartment in Roselle, New Jersey, ~ 20 miles SW of NYC. My wonderful spouse and I were married by Elvis. We have a delightful pre-kindergartener and a smiley infant. We live in DC.

Publications

Scepticism About Ought Simpliciter Scepticism, Inquiry Forthcoming

Gender Unrealism (w/ N. Howard), Ergo Forthcoming

Robust vs Formal Normativity II: No Gods, No Masters, No Authoritative Normativity (w/ N. Howard), Oxford Handbook of Metaethics Forthcoming

The Stuff That Matters, Oxford Studies in Metaethics Vol. 19 2024

AI Language Models Cannot Replace Human Research Participants (w/ J. Harding, W. D’Alessandro, and R. Long), AI & Society 2024

Categorical Phenomenalism about Sexual Orientation (w/ T. Whitlow) Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 2023

Practical Reasons for Belief Without Stakes (w/ S. Herndandez), Analytic Philosophy 2022

Wronging by Requesting (w/ K. Silver), Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics Vol. 11 2021

The World is Not Enough (w/ N. Howard), Noûs 2021

What Makes Normative Concepts Normative (w/ S. Hernandez), Southwest Philosophy Review 2021

Phenomenal Concepts as Complex Demonstratives (w/ N. Howard), Res Philosophica 2021

Resisting Reductive Realism, Oxford Studies in Metaethics Vol. 15 2020

Moral Constraints on Gender Concepts, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 2020

The Sense of Incredibility in Ethics, Philosophical Studies 2019

Moral Realism, Speech Act Diversity, and Expressivism, The Philosophical Quarterly 2019

Epistemic Modesty in Ethics, Philosophical Studies 2018

Conceptual Analysis in Metaethics (w/ S. Finlay), Routledge Handbook of Metaethics 2018

Reductivism, Nonreductivism, and Incredulity about Streumer’s Error Theory, Analysis Reviews 2018

“Double Review” of On What Matters Vol. 3 by Derek Parfit and Does Anything Really Matter? Parfit on Objectivity ed. Peter Singer, Ethics 2018

Review of Speech and Morality by Terence Cuneo, Journal of Moral Philosophy 2017

Non-Analytical Naturalism and the Nature of Normative Thought: A Reply to Parfit, Journal of Ethical and Social Philosophy 2015

How to Pull a Metaphysical Rabbit Out of an End-Relational Semantic Hat, Res Philosophica 2014

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