I'm a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. During the 2019-2020 academic year, I will be completing my dissertation with support from a Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship, as well as a dissertation fellowship from the Royster Society of Fellows at UNC.

My research interests are at the intersection of ethics, metaethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind and action. My primary research project develops an account of what I call normative achievements, which are standards that consist in deserving credit for certain kinds of success. I argue that the category of normative achievements unifies standards like moral worth, knowledge, and rationality. Click here for a more detailed description of my research, or here for my publications and works-in-progress.

Before beginning my doctoral work, I received my BA in Philosophy from Princeton University. I was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California. Aside from philosophy, some of my hobbies and interests are jazz guitar, boardgames, and spending time with my partner and my dog. I used to play jazz guitar professionally; you can listen to the album I recorded back then here.

Email: keshav@live.unc.edu

Vancouver Summer Philosophy Conference, 2017