Moral and Political Philosophy

This is a broad area, which could be sub-divided in a number of different ways. Note that in the areas of applied ethics and social and political philosophy the Department benefits from the presence of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy on campus, whose members often serve on thesis committees for our students, as well as from participating in the interdisciplinary program run by The Committee for Philosophy, Politics, and Public Policy.

Faculty in this area

        Peter Carruthers (Moral Cognition, Animal Rights)
        Susan Dwyer (Moral Psychology, Applied Ethics, Feminist Theory)
        Patricia Greenspan (Moral Philosophy, Moral Psychology, Practical Rationality)
        John Horty (Deontic Logic, Utilitarianism, Practical Reasoning)
        Samuel Kerstein (Applied Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Kantian Ethics)
        Andrew Levine (Social and Political Philosophy)
        Dan Moller (Applied Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy)
        Christopher Morris (Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law)
        Rachel Singpurwalla (Ancient Ethics, Moral Psychology)

Recent seminars in this area

        Plato’s Republic (Singpurwalla, 2009)
        Respect for Persons (Kerstein, 2009)
        Fallibilism in Ethics (Moller, 2008)
        Practical Rationality and Ethics (Greenspan, 2008)
        Justice (Morris, 2007)
        Ethics and its History (Kerstein, 2006)
        Expressivism (Schroeder, 2006)
        On Property (Levine, 2006)
        Global Justice and Order (Morris, 2005)
        Rousseau and his Legacy (Levine, 2005)
        Practical Rationality (Greenspan, 2005)