Our research is having significant impact in healthcare and healthcare ethics as well as in broader areas of public policy.

We regularly meet as a group and invite colleagues from across the University who have related interests in practical philosophy to join the conversation and collaborate.

Our research interests also venture into the history of practical philosophy. Our work in this area came to fruition when we were host to the recent Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded research network Reason, Right and Revolution: Practical Philosophy between Kant and Hegel

Our practical philosophy research is organised into two research clusters covering ethics as well as legal and political philosophy:

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Dr Christopher Jay

christopher.jay@york.ac.uk

People

  • Dr Chris Belshaw (Honorary Fellow)
  • Applied ethics, including questions of the value of death and the nature of a person.
  • Dr James Clarke
  • Post-Kantian practical philosophy, especially that of Erhard, Fichte and Hegel. Rousseau’s moral psychology and political philosophy and philosophy of law.
  • Dr Johan Gustafsson
  • Consequentialism, population ethics, free will, personal identity, value theory, moral uncertainty, social contract theory, liberalism and the value of freedom.
  • Dr Christopher Jay
  • Metaethics, normative ethics, the demandingness of morality and Kantian ethics.
  • Professor Mary Leng
  • Metaethics, particularly analogies between debates in philosophy of mathematics and metaethics.
  • Dr Martin O'Neill
  • Social justice, equality and inequality, freedom, autonomy and responsibility and political economy.
  • Professor Christian Piller
  • Normative ethics, value theory, normativity, decision theory and social choice, population ethics, value of knowledge.
  • Professor Alan Thomas
  • Moral psychology, moral particularism, metaethics, political philosophy and political economy.
  • Dr Annette Zimmermann
  • Political philosophy, philosophy of artificial intelligence and machine learning, philosophy of probability, normative ethics, social philosophy, philosophy of law, feminist philosophy.
  • Professor Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund University)
  • Value theory (especially formal axiology), moral philosophy (consequentialism, population ethics) and decision theory (especially dynamic decision making).
    Thick concepts and reasons for action (supervisors: Professor Mary Leng and Dr Stephen Everson)

Defeasible Reasoning for Resilient Autonomous Systems (supervisors: Professor Alan Thomas and Professor Radu Calinescu)

 

 

 

Contact us

Dr Christopher Jay

christopher.jay@york.ac.uk