Henry Weiss

Henry is a first-year PhD student originally from Washington, D.C. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts; and his M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His first philosophical love was the philosophy of mind, but more recently he has become interested in philosophical approaches to questions about the structure of society: what sorts of institutions are most likely to promote good governance? what are the conditions (if any) under which a society can achieve something approaching group equality? In thinking about these questions, Henry has become increasingly interested in naturalistic accounts of belief formation, which he thinks have something important to teach us about the doxastic and thus ideological possibility space available to large-scale human societies. In his spare time, Henry enjoys long walks with a podcast, discovering obscure R&B albums, drinking fancy tea, and thrifting.