Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics

Our Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics research cluster brings philosophers working on art and beauty together with those interested in morality and in politics and provides an exciting opportunity for re-evaluating value. Aesthetics, ethics, and politics are areas in which value concepts play a constitutive role. In all these areas we are concerned with what is good, beautiful, worthwhile, right, and fitting. Whenever we talk in value-terms, there are philosophical questions to be answered, about the relation between the normative and the descriptive, and so there are many opportunities for us to learn from each other's work.

Staff Research Interests

Staff Member	Research Interests
Dr Chris Cowie	Moral Philosophy Population Ethics Epistemology Space Exploration
Professor Matthew Eddy	History and Philosophy of: Science & Technology Climate & the Environment Race & Politics Gender & Sexuality Science & Religion
Dr David Faraci	Metaethics Epistemology Applied Ethics (esp. Business Ethics) Moral Responsibility
Professor Andy Hamilton	Aesthetics Wittgenstein History of 19th and 20th century philosophy Political Philosophy especially liberalism and conservatism Philosophy of mind especially self-consciousness
Dr Simon James	Environmental philosophy Existential phenomenology Buddhist philosophy
Professor Geoffrey Scarre	Moral responsibility Utilitarianism Death Forgiveness Evil John Stuart Mill Ethics of Archaeology
Dr Benedict Smith	Moral Philosophy Philosophy of Mind Phenomenology Wittgenstein Philosophy of Medicine
Dr Richard Stopford	Aesthetics Adorno Critical Theory Post-Kantian Philosophy Contemporary Metaphysics