Dr Simon Rippon
Oxford-Harvard Research Fellow, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Somerville College
Somerville College
Woodstock Road; Oxford; OX2 6HD
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Simon Rippon holds a joint Fellowship between the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health. He is also a Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard University, and holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Theology from Oxford. He is interested in applying metaethical theory to practical ethical issues, and has particular research interests in the treatment/enhancement distinction, fairness in organ donation, the nature of reasons and the question of how people come to have reasons to do things, moral disagreement, and the nature of moral expertise.
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