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Daniel Wodak

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Professor of Law (by courtesy)

Penn PERI Academic Director for Instructional Initiatives

Co-Director of the Institute for Law and Philosophy

PhD, Princeton University (2016)LLB, The University of Sydney (2010)BA, The University of Sydney (2008)

I work broadly in moral, legal, social and political philosophy. I'm currently focussing on two projects. One concerns democracy: What does it take for voters to have an equal say in elections? The other concerns discrimination: What role do people's attitudes play in making actions discriminatory and wrong? 

You can read more about my research here and here. My google scholar page is here. 

Selected Publications

  1. Daniel Muñoz and Daniel Wodak, "Three Paradoxes of Duties to Self", Mind (forthcoming).
  2. Daniel Wodak, "What Voting Power Cannot Be", Noûs (forthcoming).
  3. Daniel Wodak, "Discrimination & Disadvantage", Philosophers' Imprint 26(12) (2026): 1-17.
  4. Garrett Cullity & Daniel Wodak, “But Thinking Makes It So: How Bad Attitudes Can Make Discriminatory Actions Wrong", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (forthcoming)
  5. Daniel Wodak, "Malapportionment: A Murder Mystery", Northwestern University Law Review (forthcoming).
  6. Daniel Wodak, "One Person, One Vote", Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy 11 (2025) 32-59. [Winner of the Marc Sanders Prize for Political Philosophy 2023]
  7. Daniel Wodak, "What is the Point of Political Equality?", Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (4): 367–413. [Selected for The Philosopher's Annual as one of the 10 best philosophy papers published in 2024.]
  8. April H Bailey, Robin Dembroff, Daniel Wodak, Elif G Ikizer & Andrei Cimpian, “People’s Beliefs About Pronouns Reflect Both the Language They Speak and Their Ideologies", Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 153(5) (2024): 1388-1406.
  9. Daniel Wodak, "Which Majority Should Rule?", Philosophy & Public Affairs 52(2) (2024): 177-220
  10. Keshav Singh & Daniel Wodak, “Does Race Best Explain Racial Discrimination?", Philosophers’ Imprint 23(4) (2023): 1-22. 
  11. Samuele Chilovi & Daniel Wodak, “On the (in)significance of Hume’s Law", Philosophical Studies (2022).
  12. Daniel Wodak, “Of Witches and White Folks", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2022).
  13. Bart Streumer & Daniel Wodak, “Why formal objections to the error theory fail", Analysis (2021).
    1. See also this response: C. Tiefensee and G. Wheeler, "Why formal objections to the error theory are sound", Analysis 82(4) 2022: 608–616, and our response to them: 
    2. Bart Streumer & Daniel Wodak, "Do formal objections to the error theory overgeneralize?", Analysis 83(4) (2023): 732–741.
  14. Daniel Wodak, “Approving on the Basis of Moral and Aesthetic Testimony", Oxford Studies in Metaethics 16 (2021): 183-206. [Co-Winner of the Marc Sanders Prize in Metaethics 2019]
  15. Daniel Wodak, “Who’s on First?", Oxford Studies in Metaethics 15 (2020): 49-71.
  16. Daniel Wodak, “Mere Formalities: Normative Fictions and Normative Authority”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2019): 828-850.
  17. Robin Dembroff & Daniel Wodak, “He/She/They/Ze”, Ergo 5(14) (2018): 371-406.
  18. Daniel Wodak, “What Does ‘Legal Obligation’ Mean?”, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 99(4) (2018): 790-816.
  19. Daniel Wodak, Sarah-Jane Leslie & Marjorie Rhodes, “What a Loaded Generalization! Generics and social cognition”, Philosophy Compass 10(9) (2015): 625-635.

 

Research Interests

MetaethicsPhilosophy of LawSocial and Political PhilosophyPhilosophy of Race and GenderPhilosophy of LanguageMetaphysics

Selected Publications

For more information, see: https://danielwodak.weebly.com/research.html 

dwodak@sas.upenn.edu

Cohen Hall 492

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