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Chetan Cetty is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Lafayette College. He specializes in political philosophy, focusing on questions about how ideals of justice and morality relate to social norms and human behavior.
Professor Cetty's research primarily examines the feasibility of political proposals and how much our ideals of justice should be constrained by facts about human behavior. He explores questions like when ambitious political goals should be abandoned due to perceived infeasibility, and how claims about human nature factor into political disagreements about free markets versus big government. His work analyzes how feasibility considerations shape our deepest political disagreements.
He teaches courses including PHIL 120: Basic Social Questions, which covers ethical debates on abortion, gun control, climate change, economic inequality, open borders, and free speech with emphasis on oral communication through student debates. He also teaches PHIL 260: Political Philosophy, investigating state authority justification through contractarianism, exposing students to thinkers from Hobbes and Locke to Rawls and Nozick alongside critical perspectives from Mill, Nussbaum, and others.
Professor Cetty emphasizes careful, reflective dialogue in his teaching approach, encouraging active discussion both in class and during office hours. Outside academia, he is married with boy-girl toddler twins whom he describes as 'bundles of joy' that 'consume our lives.'
