Our work is a main research strength of the Department of Philosophy, with research interests ranging across applied ethics, normative ethics and metaethics.
We have a good mix of broadly utilitarian and broadly deontological philosophers. Our people work on topics in value theory and population ethics, on consequentialism in all its shapes, the nature of reasons, and rationality and responsibility. We also look at Bentham, Kant and Fichte alongside research into the nature and point of morality, fictionalism, realism and constructivism. In a nutshell, we look at what really matters.
We have experts in bioethics, the ethics of AI, public health ethics, and religious ethics.
Our links to economics through the School of Philosophy, Politics and Economics gives us expertise in formal ethics including the logic of value, decision theory and social choice theory.
