Ethics, Aesthetics, and Moral Psychology

Published: 1 August 2021

Ethics, Aesthetics, and Moral Psychology

We have particular strengths in the study of emotions, virtues, autonomy, responsibility, and aesthetics

Core Staff

  • Michael Brady – emotion, virtue, suffering
  • Ben Colburn – autonomy, end of life, responsibility
  • Jennifer Corns – pain, affect, suffering, death, philosophy of medicine
  • Robert Cowan – moral psychology, moral epistemology
  • Emma Gordon – applied ethics, bioethics (especially human enhancement), ethics of AI, philosophy of well-being, philosophy of psychotherapy
  • Gary Kemp – pictorial representation, expression, the definition of art, philosophy of literature
  • Glen Pettigrove – normative ethics, moral psychology, virtue theory, religious ethics
  • Mona Simion – blame, trust, well-being, moral testimony
  • Robin Zheng - moral responsibility, structural injustice, gender and race, social change.

Affiliated Staff

  • J Adam Carter – trust, polarisation, emotion, ethics of AI
  • Matilda Carter
  • Timothy Kearl - agentive modality, agentive modals, action theory
  • Christoph Kelp – blame, trust, moral understanding, moral assertion, moral testimony
  • Joe Slater - moral obligation, demandingness, beneficence
  • Matthew Vermaire - responsibility, blame, self-control, Strawson 
  • Christopher Willard-Kyle – well-being

For more information on research in this area, see the staff pages linked above.


First published: 1 August 2021