My name is Billy Dunaway. I work in meta-ethics, metaphysics and the philosophy of language. I am currently a graduate student at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Brief descriptions of some of my work is below. Click on 'Papers' for more detailed information about the papers.

I can be contacted at dunaway [at] umich [dot] edu. Comments on anything posted here are welcome.

Current Work:

Minimalist Semantics in Meta-ethical Expressivism (pdf)

UPDATE 7/24/09: This paper is forthcoming in the journal Philosophical Studies .

This is a paper on the "problem of creeping minimalism"and some issues surrounding Simon Blackburn's "quasi-realist" project in meta-ethics.

The final version can be found here. (Library subsrciption required)