Area of Specialisation > Moral Philosophy

Elizabeth Anderson | University of Michigan | What Has Gone Wrong? Populist politics and the mobilization of fear and resentment

Gopal Sreenivasan | Duke University | Must the ends in courage be good?

David Sussman | Illinois | Retributivism Reconsidered

Robert Stern | Sheffield| Forgiveness: owed but not demanded?

Benjamin Kiesewetter (FU Berlin): 'What We May Expect of Each Other'

Quinn White (Harvard University): 'Paying it Forward'

Vida Yao | Rice University | Grace and Alienation

Sarah Paul | NYU-Abu Dhabi | Plan B Consistency

Julia Driver (University of Texas-Austin): 'Blame and Moral Criticism'

Robert Audi (University of Notre Dame): 'Intrinsic Value, Inherent Value, and Reasons for Action'

Lucy O'Brien | UCL | Marie Guillot | Essex | Self - Matters

David Brink | UC San Diego | 'Perfect Freedom: Kant, Green, and their Critics'

Luca Ferrero (University of California, Riverside): 'Agency, Time, and Absurdity: Telic Pursuits, Atelic Activities, and the Crisis of Meaning'

Rachel Achs (University of California, Santa Cruz): 'Title TBA'

The Moral Philosophy Seminar for week 3 has been cancelled.

Dana Nelkin (UCSD): 'Desert and Degrees of Liability'

Tim Mulgan (University of Auckland/University of St. Andrews): 'Philosophy for an Ending World'

Thomas Sinclair (Wadham College, Oxford): 'Hypocrisy as Evasion'

Martin O'Neill | York | Social Justice, Democratic Socialism, and Collective Capital Institutions

E. Sonny Elizondo | California | Kantian Eudaimonism

Richard Moran | Harvard | Self-Consciousness and Self-Division

Jens Timmerman (University of St. Andrews): 'Kant’s Constitutivism of Practical Judgement'

Dana Nelkin (University of California and San Diego): 'Desert and Degrees of Liability'

Brendan de Kenessey | Toronto | What Makes Reasons Moral?

Matthew Boyle | Chicago | Ethics and the First Person Perspective

David Owens (Kings College, London): 'Rules and Rulers'

Alexander Prescott-Couch | Oxford | Hermeneutic Injustice and the Public Sphere

Peter Railton | Michigan, Ann Arbor | 'Ethics and Artificial Intelligence​​​​​​​'

Berislav Marusic (University of Edinburgh): 'Emotional Double Vision'

Sanford Diehl (New York University): 'Recognition as Actualisation'

Kenneth Walden (Dartmouth College): 'Estrangement'

David Enoch (Balliol College, University of Oxford): 'Foreseeing Intended Harm: When Do Expected in-bello Violations Undermine ad-bellum Justification?'

Rahul Kumar (Queen's University): 'Contractualism and the Value of Mutual Recognition'

Selim Berker | Harvard |The Deontic, the Evaluative, and the Fitting

Sarah Buss | Michigan | Why Me?

Paul Schofield (Bates College): 'What Would it Mean to Reason Second-Personally?'

Carla Bagnoli (Modena): 'Orientation in Moral Thinking'

Louise Hanson | Durham | Robust Moral Realism and Robust Aesthetic Realism

Edward Lamb | Oxford | Benefiting Those Who Would Benefit More

Paul Bloomfield | Connecticut | Justice as the Virtue of Respect

Theron Pummer (University of St. Andrews): 'Lifetime Prerogatives and Moral Offsetting'

James Lewis (Cardiff University): 'What is togetherness and why is it good?'

Sam Berstler | Princeton/MIT | The Ethics of Word Twisting

Frances Kamm | Rutgers - New Brunswick | 'Handling Future Pandemics: Harming, Not Aiding, and Liberty'

Olivia Bailey (University of California, Berkeley): 'Growing up and getting better: on some neglected costs of sensibility change'

Jonathan Gingerich (University of Rutgers Newark) and Daniela Dover (University of Oxford): 'Freedom and Futurity: Beauvoir's Moral Psychology'

Sarah Buss (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor): 'Why Me?'

Jules Salomone-Sehr (The Queen's College, University of Oxford): 'Delayed Blame for Grave Wrongs'

Samuel Dishaw (Université Catholique de Louvain): 'Justifiability and the Other’s Point of View'

Oded Na'aman | Martin Buber Society of Fellows, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Meaningful Suffering

Michael Rabenberg | Princeton | Lucretius’ Puzzle

Eric Marcus | Auburn | Preaching What You Practice

Jessica Isserow (University of Leeds): 'Mixing Pride with Pleasure'

Christopher Cowie (Durham): 'The Unsolvable Puzzle: How Moral Paradoxes Support Scepticism'

John-Stewart Gordon | Vytautas Magnus University | Ethics as a Method

Barry Maguire | University of Edinburgh | Rewiring Ethics

Jed Lewinsohn | Pittsburgh | The ‘Natural Unintelligibility’ of Normative Powers

Paul Katsafanas | Boston | 'The Puzzle of Commitment'

Ulrike Heuer (University College, London): 'Obligations as Protected Reasons'

Daniel Munoz (University of North Carolina): 'Caring Who'

Johann Frick | Princeton | Dilemmas, Luck, and the Two Faces of Morality

Nomy Arpaly | Brown University | 'Deliberation and Fetish'

Aleksy Tarasenko-Struc (Alden March Bioethics Institute, Albany Medical College): 'Love and the Value of a Subject'

Lidal Dror (Princeton University): 'Ignorance and Indifference of the Deaths of Select Others'

Michael Otsuka | LSE | The case for a funded pension with a defined benefit (DB)

CANCELLED (this seminar will now take place in Trinity Term)