GABE BROUGHTON
I am a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department, and a core faculty member in the Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE), at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I received my PhD in philosophy from Princeton University in 2024. Before that, I got my JD from the University of Chicago Law School.
I work primarily on ethics, political philosophy, and the philosophy of law. I’m also interested in logic, epistemology, and metaphysics. Here’s my CV.
Outside of philosophy, I spend most of my time tethered to a handsome beagle named Zorro.
You can email me at gbroughton [at] unc.edu.
Publications
- Weakening the Plaintiff’s Case without Strengthening the Defendant’s. Legal Theory 31 (2025): 139-165.
- Refining the Argument from Democracy. Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy 29 (2025): 462-501.
- Carnapian Frameworks. Synthese 199 (2021): 4097-4126.
- The Naturalized Epistemology Approach to Evidence (with Brian Leiter). In Philosophical Foundations of Evidence Law, eds. Christian Dahlman, Alex Stein, and Giovanni Tuzet (Oxford University Press, 2021): 25-39.
- Vertical Precedents in Formal Models of Precedential Constraint. Artificial Intelligence & Law 27 (2019): 253-307.
In progress or under review
- On the relationship between practical reasons and moral requirements (under review)
- On the difference between enforceable and unenforceable duties (under review)
- On indirect accounts of deontic status and the All or Nothing Problem (in progress)
- On “weight pluralism” about reasons (in progress)
- On judicial hedging and precedential constraint (in progress)
Teaching
- Introduction to Political Philosophy (PHIL 170),
UNC, Chapel Hill (Fall 2026) - Issues in Legal Philosophy (PHIL 280),
UNC, Chapel Hill (Fall 2026) - Ethics, Politics, and Technology (PHIL 265),
UNC, Chapel Hill (Spring 2026) - Philosophy of Constitutional Rights (PHIL 273), UNC, Chapel Hill (Fall 2025)
- The Free Will Problem (PHIL 981),
Princeton University (Fall 2024)