Avram Hiller is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at Portland State University.
Avram has very broad-ranging interests, mostly within analytic philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, normative ethics, the philosophy of science, and environmental ethics.
Outside of philosophy, Avram spends time hiking, listening to and playing music, taking photos, and with family. Prior to his philosophy career, Avram worked as a consultant at an econometric consulting firm and as a computer programming "ontological engineer". And despite not having an illustrious basketball career, Avram is a past winner of the PSU Campus Rec Three-Point Shootout.
Selected Publications
- "Comment on Gignac and Zajenkowski, 'The Dunning-Kruger effect is (mostly) a statistical artefact: Valid approaches to testing the hypothesis with individual differences data'," forthcoming in Intelligence.
- "Individual Climate Risks at the Bounds of Rationality," forthcoming in Risk and Responsibility: Theory and Application, Adriana Placani and Stearns Broadhead, eds., Routledge.
- "Pluralism about Group Knowledge: A Reply to Jesper Kallestrup," with R. Wolfe-Randall, in Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 12(1) 2023.
- "Epistemic Structure in Non-Summative Social Knowledge," with R. Wolfe Randall, Social Epistemology (2022).
- "Consequentialism in Environmental Ethics" in Stephen Gardiner and Allen Thompson, eds., Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2016)
- “Hume on Animals and the Rest of Nature,” with Angela Coventry, in Animal Ethics and Philosophy, edited by Elisa Aaltola and John Hadley (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
- “A 'Famine, Affluence, and Morality' for Climate Change?" Public Affairs Quarterly, 28(1) 2014
- Consequentialism and Environmental Ethics, co-edited with Ramona Ilea and Leonard Kahn (Routledge, 2014)
- "Knowledge Essentially Based Upon False Belief," Logos & Episteme, 4(1) 2013
- “Object-Dependence,” Essays in Philosophy, 14(1) 2013
- “The Unusual Logic of Hurka’s Recursive Account,” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, March 2012
- “Climate Change and Individual Responsibility,” The Monist, 94(3), 2011
- “Safety and Epistemic Luck,” with Ram Neta, Synthese 158, 2007