I am an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University-Newark. I work primarily in ethics, metaethics, and moral psychology. I am particularly interested in questions about normative realism, expressivism about normative discourse, meaning in life, love, and the ethics of imperfection.
After joining Rutgers in 2017, I also spent two years as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Leeds (2019-2021). I completed my PhD at New York University in 2017, and before that, I studied philosophy at the University of Bucharest. I was born and raised in Brăila, a small city in eastern Romania.
You can email me at camil.golub@rutgers.edu. You can also find me on PhilPeople.
Publications
Epistemological challenges to normative realism: a soft naturalist response. Forthcoming in C. Brîncuș (ed.), From an Analytical Point of View: Essays in Honor of Mircea Dumitru.
Normative reference as a normative question. Erkenntnis, 2023 (online first).
Quasi-naturalism and the problem of alternative normative concepts. Journal of Moral Philosophy, 19 (5), 2022.
Representation, deflationism, and the question of realism. Ergo, 7 (1), 2021.
Is there a good moral argument against moral realism?. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 24 (1), 2021.
Making peace with moral imperfection. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 16 (2), 2019.
Reid on moral sentimentalism, Res Philosophica, 96 (4), 2019.
Personal value, biographical identity, and retrospective attitudes. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 97 (1), 2019
Review of Robert N. Johnson and Michael Smith (eds.), Passions and Projections. Themes from the Philosophy of Simon Blackburn. Journal of Moral Philosophy, 15 (5), 2018.
Expressivism and the reliability challenge. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 20 (4), 2017.
Expressivism and realist explanations. Philosophical Studies, 174 (6), 2017.
