Christopher Frugé

I'm interested in how we can create genuinely new aspects of reality, with an eye toward implications for value and death. I’m developing a subjectivist account of wellbeing that treats personal value as a genuinely real artefact, where this allows us to create value for ourselves that persists posthumously. I aim to eventually expand this artifactual approach to an account of self-regarding and other-regarding reasons. As a framework for this conception of normativity, I am developing a metaphysics of dependence and properties that can capture how we can create both concrete and abstract artefacts, including normative ones. 

I teach in many areas of philosophy, including metaethics, metaphysics, ethics, social philosophy, logic, and early modern.