Nir Ben-Moshe
Associate Professor
The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that four new professors have decided either to join our faculty this fall or visit during the year. These announcements (which are...
Faculty working in Moral Psychology
Heidi M Hurd
Professor
Rob Kar
Interim Head, Philosophy
Benjamin Michael Miller
Assistant Professor
Michael Moore
Professor
John Schwenkler
Professor
Helga Varden
Professor
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Alison Duncan Kerr is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy, with broad research interests in feminist philosophy, the philosophy of gender, sex, and love, logic, theories of rationality, and the...
This 2008 book explores the thesis that legal roles force people to engage in moral combat, an idea implicit in the assumption that citizens may be morally required to disobey unjust laws, while...
This 1993 work provides, for the first time, a unified account of the theory of action presupposed by both British and American criminal law and its underlying morality.
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This 2020 book details how both morality and law presuppose the accuracy of common sense, a centuries-old psychology that defines people as rational agents who make honorable choices and act for just...
Robin (Rob) Kar is a Professor of Law and Philosophy and current Head of the Philosophy Department. His research interests range from ethics, meta-ethics, moral psychology, political philosophy...
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Jochen Bojanowski is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy, who does research in moral and political philosophy, with a particular interest in Kant’s practical philosophy. His first book, Kant’s...
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