Kirstine La Cour

Kirstine La Cour

I hold a BA from King’s College London and an MPhil and PhD from University College London.

My graduate training was funded by the Keeling Centre, the AHRC LAHP, the Royal Institute of Philosophy, and the Society for Applied Philosophy. I have also held a one-year Research Excellence Scholarship for Cross-Disciplinary Training in UCL Linguistics and have twice visited the Philosophy Department at Yale University.

I specialise in Social Philosophy, with research spanning across Moral Psychology, Ethics, and Epistemology, and additional interests in Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Language and Mind. My research typically takes its starting point in everyday communicative practices (protesting, apologising, arguing, etc.), and considers the roles these play in facilitating interpersonal relationships, normative understanding, and the expression and development of our identities as agents.