Chetan Cetty

Hi, welcome to my website! I'm currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at SUNY Oswego. Beginning Fall 2024, I will be an Assistant Professor at Lafayette College. Before coming to SUNY Oswego, I was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. I grew up in Singapore and completed my undergraduate studies at the National University of Singapore before completing an M.A. in philosophy at Georgia State University. I was a visiting researcher at the Australian National University in 2015.

I work primarily in political and moral philosophy. My primary research concerns how moral and political theories should be constructed, including questions about the proper role of idealization within such theories, what feasibility constraints are and how they apply to such theories, and how concerns about alienation and action-guidingness should bear on them.​ This aside, I also examine the ethics of various pressing policy questions in our society today such as the ethics of gun control, the impact of automation on work, and social media's effects on public health.

I was a Critical Speaking Fellow at the Penn Communication with the Curriculum (CWiC) program for the 2019-2020 academic year. As part of this fellowship, I designed and taught a course on ethics and public policy that, unlike most philosophy courses, placed significant weight on oral communication exercises in student assessment.

If you wish to contact me, I can be reached at chetancetty[at]gmail.com.

P.S. People often have trouble pronouncing my first name. The closest phonetic spelling is chay-tun but the "un" sound is closer to the "on" in "Jason" or the "an" in "Nathan" than the "un" in "bun" or "ton." I know it can be difficult to get it right but I appreciate the effort!