I'm a Reader in Philosophy at the University of Reading. I was previously a Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, a graduate student at Reading, and an undergraduate at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

My CV is here.

Contact details

Department of Philosophy
University of Reading
Reading RG6 6AA
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0)118 378 7326

Office: HumSS G63
Office hour: on leave

Email: b.streumer@reading.ac.uk

Research

My main research interest is ethics, especially metaethics. I'm currently working on a book-length defence of an error theory about all normative judgements. Papers I've written on this topic include:

• Can We Believe the Error Theory? (forthcoming in the Journal of Philosophy)
• Do Normative Judgements Aim to Represent the World?
• Why There Really Are No Irreducibly Normative Properties
• Are Normative Properties Descriptive Properties? (Philosophical Studies 154 (2011): 325-348)
• Are There Irreducibly Normative Properties? (Australasian Journal of Philosophy 86 (2008): 537-561)

Other recent work:

• Reasons, Impossibility and Efficient Steps: Reply to Heuer (Philosophical Studies 151 (2010): 79-86)
• Practical Reasoning (in A Companion to the Philosophy of Action, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)

More of my papers are here.

A podcast in which Hallvard Lillehammer and I discuss the error theory can be downloaded here.

Teaching

I'm on research leave in 2012. I taught the following courses in the Autumn term of 2011:

• Free Will and Responsibility (third year)
• Early Modern Philosophy I: Locke (second year)
• MA seminar