N. G. Laskowski

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

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Research

My core work has been and continues to be in ethics, especially metaethics, where I focus largely on what morality would have to be like to be a part of the natural world. More recently, in social philosophy, I've been working mostly on social ontology. Even more recently, in philosophy of technology, I've been working on a range of issues connected to artificial moral psychology.

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

Forthcoming
Skepticism About Ought Simpliciter Skepticism, Inquiry

Gender Unrealism (w/ N. Howard), Ergo

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

2024
The Stuff That Matters, Oxford Studies in Metaethics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2020
Resisting Reductive Realism, Oxford Studies in Metaethics

Moral Constraints on Gender Concepts, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

2019
The Sense of Incredibility in Ethics, Philosophical Studies

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

2018
Epistemic Modesty in Ethics, Philosophical Studies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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