Ripley Stroud
ripleystroud [at] princeton [dot] edu
I'm a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow at the Princeton Society of Fellows and a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy. I work primarily on issues within, and at the intersection of, ethics and epistemology. I received my Ph.D. from UNC in 2026.
I'm originally from Washington, DC. Before UNC, I got my MA in philosophy from Brandeis University. Before that, I got my BA in liberal arts & sciences from St. John's College, a teensy-tiny Great Books school.
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Research
Publications
"'Gaslighting', Refocused", Hypatia (forthcoming) → argues that extant accounts of gaslighting either fail to adequately emphasize the internal felt experience of the gaslit or do so in such a way that ignores its strongly affective character. (pre-print)
"Epistemic Respect", Philosophy & Phenomenological Research (2025) → argues that there is moral reason, on pain of disrespect, to accept testimony from anyone in the absence of defeaters. (pre-print | final version)
"Moral Norms on Peer Disagreement", Synthese (2025) → argues that there is moral reason to lower confidence in one's starting belief in response to the discovery of peer disagreement. (pre-print | final version)
Review of Thomas Kelly's Bias: A Philosophical Study, Journal of Moral Philosophy (2025)
In Progress
please feel free to email me for drafts!
"A Case for Countenancing Conflict" → argues that we have less reason than traditionally thought to fear countenancing conflict between the ethical and the epistemic.
"Moralizing Expertise" → argues that there is moral reason to assign significant weight to expert testimony, grounded in respect for their track record of reliability. 
"Loving, Ex Post Facto" → argues that in order to love some present X well, we must love at least some of X's unknown past-selves, where "unknown past-selves" refers to iterations of X that existed before we knew them.
"Internet Trolls and the Principle of Charity" → argues that the Principle of Charity must be amended to avoid the counterexample of trolls.
Teaching
At Princeton
"Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture II" (Spring 2027)
"Love and Respect in Philosophy & Literature" (Fall 2026)
At Chapel Hill
"Moral and Philosophical Issues of Gender in Society" (Spring 2024, Summer 2023, Summer 2022)
"Existentialism" (Fall 2023)
"Philosophy of Humor" (Fall 2022)