University of Kent

Graduate Student, Philosophy

Thesis Title: Reimagining meta-ethics

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My current (PhD) research is in the philosophical areas of moral psychology and metaethics. Basically, I am trying to change the current metaethical debate. I am not satisfied with its methodology. I think there is a problem in the sense that philosophers do not look sufficiently at what human beings really are like and I think that without doing that we forfeit the possibility of comprehension of our own intellectual issues. I take an interdisciplinary (philosophical/empirical) approach when doing meta-ethics and moral psychology. The main empirical areas I look at in order to gain valuable information that can help me to solve philosophical questions in the area of meta-ethics are: the neuroscience of moral judgement; the social-psychology of moral judgement; developmental psychology and the entire empirical domain of psychopathy. I work with the assumption that studying psychopaths teaches us a lot about the constitutional luck ‘we’ have, constitutional luck that makes it possible for ‘us’ to make moral judgements and get morally motivated.

That's the broader methodological part of my PhD. When it comes to a constructive theory, I aim at offering an anthropologically informed account of moral objectivity, especially its limits. Psychopaths play a role here too.

I hope this suffices for now...Have a nice day!!

With very best wishes,
Claudia

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