I received my PhD in philosophy in May 2020 from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. I completed 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. In August 2020, I'll be starting as an assistant professor of philosophy at Syracuse University.

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, I enjoy playing jazz guitar, tabletop gaming, watching football and basketball, 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