Rate My Professor Matt Tedesco

Tedesco's research focuses on ethical theory, with particular attention to consequentialism and the demands of morality, as well as practical ethics related to moral status and personhood, including questions about when personhood is acquired or ends and who possesses it. He has made contributions to philosophical literature through peer-reviewed publications, including "Intuitions and the Demands of Consequentialism" in Utilitas (2011), "Indirect consequentialism, suboptimality, and friendship" in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (2006), "Dutch Protocols for Deliberately Ending the Life of Newborns: A Defence" in Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (2017), "Thomson’s Samaritanism Constraint" in Philosophy in the Contemporary World (2007), and "Theism, Naturalistic Evolution and the Probability of Reliable Cognitive Faculties" in Philo (2002). These works explore key issues in normative and applied ethics. Tedesco is recognized as an expert on a wide range of ethical questions, particularly in biomedical and environmental contexts, and his efforts extend to fostering clear and careful thinking about the world and individuals' roles within it.