Daniel Avi Gilbert Coren, PhD

Dr. Daniel Avi Gilbert Coren earned a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Colorado (Boulder) in 2019. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor at McMaster University (2019-2022) and Skidmore College (2022-23). His work focuses on moral responsibility, Aristotle, free will, and related issues in ethics. His pre-SU teaching experience includes ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, logic, ethics, political philosophy, Classical Indian Buddhist philosophy, early modern philosophy, philosophy of law, and other areas. Dr. Coren’s main research-goal is to develop a philosophically, scientifically, mathematically, and theologically defensible account of free will. Outside philosophy, he enjoys watching and playing soccer and chess (not at the same time). He has also long enjoyed hiking and meditating (at the same time, if possible).

Selected publications include

• "Zooming Irresponsibly Down the Slippery Slope," Analysis, 2021, 81: 396–402
• “Testing for Intrinsic Value, for Us as We Are,” Inquiry, 2023, 66: 773-798
• “Sympathetic Joy,” Erkenntnis, forthcoming; “Indecision and Buridan’s Principle,” Synthese, 2022, 200: 1–18
• “Aristotle on Motion in Incomplete Animals,” Apeiron, 2020, 53: 285–314
• “Aristotle Against (Unqualified) Self-motion: Physics VII 1 α241b35–242a49 / β241b25–242a15,” Ancient Philosophy, 2019, 39: 363–80
• “Freedom, Gratitude, and Resentment: Olivi and Strawson,” Res Philosophica, 2019, 96: 1–21